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...lers living in splendid isolation; the opulence and intrigue of a Muslim Royal Court; the machinations of a sinister cult of Kali; the horrors of the Indian Mutiny: are the themes woven into the rich backcloth of ?THE CURSE OF KALI?. In this turbulent setting are a man and a woman whose destinies are inextricably linked, their love yearning to flower despite every obstacle...

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...on? Could they foresee that that same Company would influence more than 200 years of British and Indian history and found the greatest Empire the wo... ...n. ‘I was tied to a tree by my friends who wanted to play our favourite game of Settlers and Red Indians. I was the youngest, so they decided I sho... ...rs and Red Indians. I was the youngest, so they decided I should be the “Settler” captured by the Indians.’ Rosita knew this game, which the childre... ...and will be able to give you, materially, all that I could not. You will also be able to help the Indians, themselves, by your skill as a doctor, a c... ...ia. Sir Cameron was a tall, gaunt-faced man with a leathery tanned skin from his years under the Indian sun. His wife, Lady Cameron, was nearly as ... ...of this Audrey Blankenhagen 226 ancient land with its long history and its vast differences of castes and creeds. I despise the protocol and prej...

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...s effect on women Figure Love Marriages Chapter 8 Family System Divorce Chapter 9 Bureaucracy The sweetness of a government job in India Indian Bureaucratic culture Hierarchy inside the bureaucracy The avoidable disasters An earthquake The guilds The common courtesies in English A quotation from History Effect of abstinence Political control on Bureauc...

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...F THE SACRED BOOKS OF THE EAST COMPILED BY M . WINTERNITZ PROFESSOR OF INDIAN PHILOLOGY AND OF ETHNOLOGY IN THE GERMAN UNIVERSITY OF PRAGUE WITH... ...a profound influence on the civilization of the continent of Asia. Of the Indian religions the Vedic-Brah­ manic system here claims twenty-one volume... ...as been most successfully accom­ plished by the compiler, now Professor of Indian Philology and of Ethnology in the German University of Prague. The... ...ion of the subject under various heads. Thus, in the article on Agni, the Indian god of fire, the material relating to that deity is arranged under ... ..., 217. (b) IN CIVIL LAW. A. defined, 25, 316; the cause of confusion of castes, 25, 3 15, 407; law about a., 2, 164-7; 25, 253, 3 15-2 I ; 33, 17...

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...u in India W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy Department of Mathematics Indian Institute of Technology, Madras Chennai – 600036, India e-mail... ...ant women and use of condom while visiting CSWs are on the agenda and in the Indian scenario no effort is even made to test CSWs for HIV. Althoug... ...latives also sexually abuse them. W 2 – No wealth / property In the Indian system of law, that too, after the advent of the Manusmriti (Th... ...ral women and their socio-economic problems. It is the modesty of the married Indian women that they cannot say ‘no’ to sex with their husbands. Thi... ...models are Sita, Savithri, Nalayini, Shakuntala, Andal or Radha; so that the Indian women is never allowed to think beyond the concept of self sacr... ...mic condition. To be very precise in India as per the Aryans there are five castes: Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas, Sudras and Chandalas or untouc... .... So the women who have some role to play in India are only from the Brahmin castes and the upper castes. Dalit women are easy victims of all atroc...

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...y improvement that the English East India Company bestowed to a minute section of the native population has not be replicated by any endeavour of the Indian leader. See this link for an example. As to the claims of 'caste' defining human quality, it is nonsense. The lower castes, Ezhava, Paraya, Pulaya etc., who converted into Christianity in the erstwhile Travancore ki...

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...“The genius of Indian social life lies in living together separately.” Humayun Kabir (at the inaugural of IIT Madras, 1959). This essay seeks to highlight segregation as the keynote of traditional Indian life and caste as the key to the...

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...Brahmin pundits and recorded by the Rev. C.T.E. Rhenius in the ‘Preface to the Code of Hindu Laws’ commissioned by Warren Hastings] “The genius of Indian social life lies in living together separately.” Humayun Kabir (at the inaugural of IIT Madras, 1959). ...

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...Foreword Summary I. The Methodological Bug II. Indian Unipluralism: Introductory III. Hinduism and Buddhist Protestantism IV. The Impersonal Individual V. Hindutva: A Theological Figment VI. Nature of Caste Pluralism VII. Royal Government and Caste Plurarchy Afterwo...

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...bjugated and politically marginalized group of people, the 138 million Dalits in India suffer not only from the excesses of the traditional oppressor castes, but also from State Oppression— which includes, but is not limited to, authoritarianism, police brutality, economic embargo, criminalization of activists, electoral violence, repressive laws that aim to curb fundament...

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...ilized standards.” Ex-President of India, the late K. R. Narayanan The New Indian Express, Saturday, 12 Nov. 2005 K.R.Narayanan was a lauded he... ...lits in India suffer not only from the excesses of the traditional oppressor castes, but also from State Oppression— which includes, but is not lim... ...or six decades, he powerfully influenced the course of politics in the South- Indian state of Tamil Nadu. His ideology and struggle to attain ration... ...called the Panchamas. These four varnas are in turn divided into thousands of castes and sub-castes. According to classic Hinduism¸ the origin of ... ...dow is considered polluting. Rigid mathematical computations decree that some castes are polluting at four feet, some at eight feet, and some as far... ...ts is dominant even today in the public and private spheres of life. Prior to Indian independence, Dalits where not even allowed into temples. Ev... ... R 7 : Caste system One of the most peculiarly oppressive systems, all the castes and the thousands of sub-castes are religiously forbidden, to ... ...12.1973) was a social revolutionary who influenced the politics of the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu for half a century. Periyar, literally mean... ...riends P.Varadharajulu Naidu and C. Rajagopalachari persuaded him to join the Indian National Congress led by Mohandas Gandhi. In 1919, he joined th...

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.... From his limb come all things both animate and inanimate: animals of every type, liturgical formulas, hymns and melodies, various meteres, the Four castes of men, the cosmic powers. From his mouth Indra (God) and Agni (fire), from his naval the air, from his head the sky, from his feet the earth, from the ears the points of the compass – nothing, nobody is omitted. ...

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...What Is Religion? 1Buddhism 16Christianity 59Mysticism 118A Chorus Of Powers: American Indian Belief 176The Sacred Land: Australian Aboriginal Religion 238Conclusion 277References 293The Collected Works Of Carl Jung 299...

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...ity of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1953. The Spiritual Legacy of The American Indian, by Joseph Epes Brown. © 1982 by Joseph Epes Brown. Reprinted by per... ...k, 1972. The paper by Paul Radin “The Religious Experiences of an American Indian” was published in Eranos 18-1950, © Eranos Foundation, Ascona, Switz... ...Mechanism In Mysticism Contrasting Viewpoints A Chorus Of Powers: American Indian Belief 176 Orenda Deity And Pantheon Time, Space, Direction Dream An... ...time and time again in this book, particularly in the chapters on American Indian and Australian Aboriginal beliefs. Analysis “in Jung’s manner” is no... ...University of Florida, a specialist in the philosophical bases of American Indian thought, has kindly contributed Chapter 5, “A Chorus of Powers: Amer... ...entsia because it was a new, fresh system. Gone were the clashes be- tween castes. Gone was the greedy priesthood which, as Plato put it, promised tha...

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...sly in nearby India. So our driver didn’t need to cow- tow to the bulls as Indian chauffeurs must do. My earlier impression of Indian drivers was tha... ...rk, but at least a hemisphere! But if China can do it and the upper class Indians can do it, there is hope for us. Let‘s look at India for a minute.... ...o farm often switch to the fruits and vegetables that the more prosperous Indians now demand. But with few refrigerated trucks and freight cars, the... ...or are being swallowed by the skyrocketing inflation rates while the rich Indians buy more companies and run with the rich of the globalized world. ... ...ology so that it became a leader in the world. A problem was that so many Indians with superior educations opted to leave for more comfortable count... ...of high levels of education. With Gandhi‘s theoretical elimination of the castes, there was more possibility for education for more people. Of cours...

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.... Trends in Capital Flows to India 61 4. Key Indicators of Openness of the Indian Economy 64 6 Fixing Global Finance Acronyms ASEAN The Association o... ...lion. Dollars are US dollars unless otherwise specified. 1 US Dollar ($) = Indian Rupees (Rs.) 45 (As on September 30, 2010). Indian Financial Year: A... ...wing profits made by the US-based private equity firm Warburg Pincus in an Indian mobile telephone service provider, Bharti Telecom, are a case in poi... ...re senior management team (including the chair) in 2006 when it brought an Indian shareholder onto the board. In early 2007, Actis sold its 29 percent... ...rts – are missing in France. Should India Establish a SWF? Since 2006, the Indian government has shown keen interest in establishing a sovereign fund.... ...trated among landless laborers, small farmers, urban poor, migrants, lower castes, tribal communities, senior citizens and women. In the last two deca...

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... at the beginning; was romantic to say the least. What if the North American Indians tried to do it? Or the Irish…? Oops, I forgot…that attempt i... ...ing horses, they became incredibly warlike. So did the North American plains Indians. War is usually a manifestation of accumulated power. Regardl... ...aking them scapegoats… putting all of their cultural shame onto the American Indians and using this psychological projection as an excuse to do ever... ... resemble what it originally started out as. A bunch of sneaky hi-jinks that Indian villages played on each other before Europeans came. And spoile... ...ly stand up and say: ‘I cannot tell a lie. I stole the whole idea from the Indians. But they stole it back. Now; I have no idea of where the re... ...owners. And the cast split between wage slaves and their employers. The two castes splitting apart from the ringing of its message: ‘Let Freedom a... ...ndreds of years before Luther ever published his criticisms. Europeans of all castes, classes, and levels had been protesting against the corruption... .... It was all about special privileges being given to certain people, certain castes, certain classes. Whatever people complained about the corrupti... ... microcosm of European class hatred: only it was a more intense hatred. The castes and classes hated each other. They feared and mistrusted each ot...

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...th their forks in their right hands, Europeans with the fork in the left. Indians may eat with their right hands, Chinese with chop sticks. No need f... ...ans in North America were generally pantheistic, while the South American Indians were generally panentheistic. Yet the Cherokees were monotheistic. ... ...sm has pantheistic elements in its beliefs. It was probably influenced by Indian and Persian pantheism. 76 ―Uniting with God is called a ... ...ook for evidence for them. We find that evidence in the scriptures of the Indian and Persian cultures. A Jew, a Christian or a Muslim would immediat... ... Africans, 30% for Bangladeshi. 13% for Pakistani, and 5% for Chinese and Indians. It seems that the longer the ethnic group had lived in the UK, t... ...t be death for a low caste person but result in only a fine for the upper castes. Of course when you write the laws you are much more concerned with...

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...utrosophic Models W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy Department of Mathematics Indian Institute of Technology, Madras Chennai – 600036, India e-mail: ... ...supremacy for the emancipation of the oppressed peoples of the downtrodden castes. This present book was a side-project while we were both working ... ...ssertation, Guide: Dr. W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy, Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology, April 2000. 73. Yuan, Miao and Zhi-Qia... ...antha Kandasamy is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, where she lives with her... ...Sc. and M.Tech. projects. She has worked in collaboration projects with the Indian Space Research Organization and with the Tamil Nadu State AIDS C...

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...ssociative rings W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy Department of Mathematics Indian Institute of Technology, Madras Chennai – 600036, India ... ...shed the first and only school for the girls of untouchable and oppressed castes, at a period of time in history where women and the oppressed caste... ... of loops and loop rings, PhD thesis (under the guidance of W.B.Vasantha) Indian Institute of Technology, Aug. 1994. 50. SOLARIN, A.R.T, A short no... .... B. Vasantha is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, where she lives with her hu... ...c. and M.Tech projects. She has worked in collaboration projects with the Indian Space Research Organization and with the Tamil Nadu State AIDS Cont...

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... Texas, the Calusa in current day Florida, the Caddo and Iroquois confederacies of Indians in North America, the Cree in Canada, the Witoto, native... ...nes Decrees. But ethnic cleansing can be economic (ask the Chinese in Asia and the Indians in Africa). It can be physical (Croatia, Kosovo). It has... ...hich reflects gender role orientation. Joanne Meyerowitz, a professor of history at Indiana University and the editor of The Journal of American Hi... ...gh most of them are. The "noble savage" and the "wild savage" are both stereotypes. Indians in movies, note Ralph and Natasha Friar in their work ti... ...ndians in movies, note Ralph and Natasha Friar in their work titled "The Only Good Indian - The Hollywood Gospel" (1972) are overwhelmingly drunken... ..., feticide, infanticide, parricide, ethnocide, genocide, genital mutilation, social castes, and adultery are normative in certain cultures - and str...

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... Texas, the Calusa in current day Florida, the Caddo and Iroquois confederacies of Indians in North America, the Cree in Canada, the Witoto, native... ...nes Decrees. But ethnic cleansing can be economic (ask the Chinese in Asia and the Indians in Africa). It can be physical (Croatia, Kosovo). It has... ...hich reflects gender role orientation. Joanne Meyerowitz, a professor of history at Indiana University and the editor of The Journal of American Hi... ...gh most of them are. The "noble savage" and the "wild savage" are both stereotypes. Indians in movies, note Ralph and Natasha Friar in their work ti... ...ndians in movies, note Ralph and Natasha Friar in their work titled "The Only Good Indian - The Hollywood Gospel" (1972) are overwhelmingly drunken... ..., feticide, infanticide, parricide, ethnocide, genocide, genital mutilation, social castes, and adultery are normative in certain cultures - and str...

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...heir native land, the French formerly called this river the St. Louis. The Indians, in their pompous language, have named it the Father of Waters, or ... ...ist between the physical conformation, the language, and the habits of the Indians of North America, and those of the T ongous, Mantchous, Mongols, T ... ...“Conjecture sur l’Origine des Americains”; Adair, “History of the American Indians.” 31 Tocqueville neither white like the Europeans, nor yellow like... ... new combinations, and bespoke an effort of the understanding of which the Indians of our days would be incapable.* The social state of these tribes d... ... advanc- ing to civilization, have relapsed into a state of barbarism. The Indian was indebted to no one but himself; his virtues, his vices, and his ... ...ity of conditions, until it arrived at inviolable privileges and exclusive castes, would be a novelty in the world; and nothing intimates that America... ...qual ranks, they are apt to devise as many deities as there are na- tions, castes, classes, or families, and to trace a thousand pri- vate roads to he... ... different races were more sharply defined, and each nation was divided by castes into several peoples. In the midst of this common effort, which seem... ...nerations to come the care of regulating their destinies. In proportion as castes disappear and the classes of society approximate – as manners, custo...

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...hile I was getting ashore, demanding of all things in the world news about Indian journalism. It is an awful thing to enter a new land with a new lie ... ...rests us,” he said. “Have you got reporters anything like our reporters on Indian newspapers?” “We have not,” I said, and suppressed the “thank God” r... ...certain of it, why, then—I waited developments. “And what did you think of Indiana when you came through?” was the next question. It revealed the myst... ... eye had looked up the name of his victim in the hotel register, and read “Indiana” for India. The provincialism with which I had cursed his people ex... ...re as brethren, and I did homage to the owl and listened to their talk. An Indian club about Christmas-time will yield, if properly worked, an abundan... ... shoulders that he was a Yoruba man, if there be any truth in ethnological castes. He did his thinking in English, but he was a Yoruba negro, and the ...

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... watercourses, with plentiful willows beside the road, vines and fields of Indian corn and suchlike lush crops. Always quite soon one came to some old... ...tiful church, and then suddenly we are in a village street full of stately Indian soldiers. It betrays no military secret to say that commonly the rar... ... was an absolute cessation of criticism of the military and administrative castes; it is becoming a question whether we may not pay too heavily in blu... ...e and a common aim with the French and Irish and Italians and Russians and Indians. It is to that outer Britain that those Englishmen you found so int... ...al that the platelayer may say to the barrister or the duchess, or the Red Indian to the Limehouse sailor, or the Anzac soldier to the Sinn Feiner or ...

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...t men made in their own province and elsewhere. The Museum was given up to Indian arts and manufactures, and anybody who sought wisdom could ask the C... ..., from the roaring Motee Bazar, such a man as Kim, who thought he knew all castes, had never seen. He was nearly six feet high, dressed in fold upon f... ... into the Back of Beyond, was registered in one of the locked books of the Indian Survey Department as C25 IB. Twice or thrice yearly C25 would send i... ...Kim small portion of that vast mass of ‘information received’ on which the Indian Government acts. But, recently, five con federated Kings, who had n... ...rains do not cause as to break. We sit, for example, side by side with all castes and peoples.’ ‘Yea, and with most outrageously shameless ones,’ said... ...ing away, he lay close in the grass and wormed nearer to the house. He saw–Indian bungalows are open through and through the Englishman return to a sm... ...One, hast thou ever taken the Road alone?’ Kim looked up sharply, like the Indian crows so busy about the fields. ‘Surely, child: from Kulu to Pathank... ...s under a strong captain), but at least they do not suffer any rivals. All castes and kinds of men move here. Look! Brahmins and chumars, bankers and ... ...owded Lahore streets. There were new people and new sights at every stride–castes he knew and castes that were altogether out of his experience. They ...

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...ntellectual fortitude, reasoning; it is mere animal training; they are white Indians.” CHAPTER III. KNIGHTS OF THE TABLE ROUND MAINLY THE R OUND T AB... ... and also some pretty fair tobacco; not the real thing, but what some of the Indians use: the inside bark of the willow, dried. These comforts had bee... ... freight up against prob able fasts before starting, after the style of the Indian and the anaconda. As like as not, Sandy was loaded for a three da... ...s the extreme of the fantastic; as showy and foolish as the sort of thing an Indian medicine man wears. He was mow ing, and mumbling, and gesticulati... ...ached, I had him happy again. It was easy to do — in a country of ranks and castes. You see, in a country where they have ranks and castes, a man is...

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...o sees fit can enter it at any time, and so, unlike all other privi- leged castes the world has seen, it increases relatively to the total population,... ...2 ection 2 ection 2 ection 2 ection 2 Disregarding classes, cliques, sets, castes, and the like minor aggregations, concerned for the most part with d... ...nality, and into the natural trap of patriotic conceit. The dissent of the Indian and Colonial governing class to the first crude applications of libe... ...wly with deleterious com- modities, as the Americans do with most of their Indians; you may incite it to wear clothing to which it is not accus- tomed...

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...great affair, surely. I had no idea how insolent and untruthful these half-castes were. In fact he seemed to think Mr. Jacobus rather kind than otherw... ...t you loved the ship.” “So I do, Burns,” I said. “But the fact is that the Indian Ocean and everything that is in it has lost its charm for me. I am g...

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...He may admire the danseuses in a chauderie, as he breathes the odors of an Indian root. Dazzled by the blaze of cochineal, he recalls the poems of the... ...ochineal, he recalls the poems of the Veda, the religion of Brahma and its castes; brushing against piles of ivory in the rough, he mounts the backs o... ... the Indies. Now, isn’t it much better to supply a French prod- uct to the Indians than to send them back what they are supposed to send to us? Make t...

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... Secondly, that it is rather dear, which also I grant, for in my time East Indian opium has been three guineas a pound, and Turkey 42 Confessions of ... ...h Weld the traveller lay and listened, in Canada, to the sweet laughter of Indian women; for the less you understand of a language, the more sensible ... ...wledge of such institutions, cannot but shudder at the mystic sublimity of castes that have flowed apart, and refused to mix, through such immemorial ...

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...n strictly English lines, and write letters to the “Pioneer”, the greatest Indian daily paper, explaining his master’s aims and objects. At last he we... ... cannon boomed, Purun Dass was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire; so that his name stood Sir Purun Dass, K.C.I.E. That evening... ...fairs went, he died. The jewelled order of his knighthood went back to the Indian Government, and a new Prime Minister was appointed to the charge of ... ...he had held before him his dream of peace and quiet—the long, white, dusty Indian road, printed all over with bare feet, the incessant, slow- moving t... ...sty division of holy men, would receive him as they do those who know what castes and divi- sions are worth; sometimes on the outskirts of a little Hi... ...oury meal for the Bhagat. Hill-food is very simple, but with buckwheat and Indian corn, and rice and red pepper, and little fish out of the stream in ...

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...ion; who had, moreover, strong opinions derived from experience of the Red Indians in Upper Canada—namely, that to reclaim the young, and educate them... ... sympathise as I ought with those who are suffering so dreadfully from the Indian Mutiny, or the commercial failure, or the great excitement and agita... ... all secret societies, that it tends to produce invidious distinctions and castes. An instinct impels men to form themselves into associations; but th... ...l probability, sought to impose an English line of thought and religion on Indians and Africans. Even English dress was thought to be almost essential... ...ntation has not been found a very advanced school for the American or West Indian negro, and as a matter of fact, the islander who has fulfilled his t...

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... hold animated receptions of 18 Some Reminiscences Malays, Arabs and half-castes. They did not clamour aloud for my attention. They came with a silen... ...e the trees of the square with all their leaves gone were like tracings of indian ink on a sheet of tissue paper. It was one of those London days that...

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... table arranged for themselves in a corner of the general room. Yet, if an Indian screen could be found ample enough to plant them out from the very e... ...d upon this theme. Strictly speaking, the Pariahs is that one of the lower castes of Hindoo society of which foreigners have seen most; it is not in a...

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...t ago. It is a lovely morning, cloudless, smoking hot, the breeze not yet arisen. Looking west, in 30 Robert Louis Stevenson front of our new house, ... ...m I was all the time wrangling, proposed the vote of thanks to me with a certain handsomeness; I assure you I had earned it…. Haggard and the great Ab... ...I know they can have no interest for man or God or animal. I should have told you about the Club. We have been asked to try and start a sort of weekly... ...ildren. I had started barefoot; Belle had soon to pull off her gala shoes and stockings; the mud was as deep as to our knees, and so slippery that (mo... ...y own at the back. I should rather like to see some patterns of unglossy—well, I’ll be hanged if I can describe this red—it’s not Turkish and it’s not... ...the tinned soup which is usually the piece de resistance in the halls of Haggard, and we pitched into it. Followed an excellent salad of to- matoes an...

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...girl to come out to— what is it Thackeray says?—’the splendid palace of an Indian pro-consul.’ DOONE. Which reminds me. My quarters leak like a sieve.... ...bling. Thank Goodness, here’s Anthony—looking like a ghost. Enter ANTHONY, Indian Medical Staff, very white and tired. ANTHONY. ‘Evening, Blayne. It’s... ...e. It is not strictly a native patent, though chamars of the skin and hide castes can, if irritated, despatch a Sending which sits on the breast of th... ...t fresh drafts for the first fighting-line, which is officially called the Indian Civil Service. These die, or kill themselves by overwork, or are wor...

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...ppenger. The fact is, I hear from little Roy that you are fond of tales of Indian adventure, and I gave him a book for you to read, if you like it. Mr... ...ay,’ said Heriot. ‘I took the liberty to write some notes. My father is an Indian officer, you know, and some of the terms in the book are difficult w... ... themselves into pretty scrapes. They 179 George Meredith said she was an Indian. Heriot lost his wagers and called her a witch. She replied, ‘You’ll... ...East In- dian empire the most marvellous thing the world had seen, and our Indian Government cigars very smokeable upon acquaintance. When stirred, he... ...ding on the docility of the elephant (his de- scription of Great Britain’s Indian Empire). ‘And mind me,’ he said, ‘the masses of India are in charact... ...with it; pro- posed a Charity to be established on behalf of decayed half- castes, insisting that servants’ money could never be appro- priated to the...

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...jerkins and varnished leather caps are as distinct from one another as the castes of India, and still recognize the distance that parts them from the ... ...t officers of the old navy. He had won the confidence of de Suffren in the Indian Ocean, and the friend- ship of the Comte de Portenduere. His splendi... ... des Touches, who read a book of theological mysticism while Calyste read “Indiana,”—the first work of Camille’ s celebrated rival, in which is the ca... ...laimed Sabine, as she woke the next morning, “Calyste wanted some of those Indian sauces they serve in England in cruets. Madame de Rochefide accustom...

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...n trace no connection with the copper-colored tribes, with negroes or half-castes, in Monsieur or Madame Crevel. “And though it is a very interesting ... ...lutches—” “In God’s hands, my child—” Lisbeth dressed in the famous yellow Indian shawl and her black velvet bonnet, and put on her boots; in spite of...

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...own as the South Asian peninsula, and even of the Asian landmass. In my search for realistic historical writings on the peninsular region, Indian nation and on the antiquity of the land area currently known as Kerala, I had come across a few books of resounding quality. One was the Travancore State Manual, written by a native official (V. Nagam A...

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...LE LIFE 20. AGRICULTURE 21. COFFEE CULTIVATION 22. COTTON MANUFACTURE 23. COCOANUT FIBRE AND MANUFACTURES 24. BOATS AND FISHING 25. INDIAN MUSIC 26. MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS 27. DISTILLATION AND EXCISE 28. POLITICAL AND SOCIAL CONDITION IN FORMER TIMES 29. SLAVERY 30. CHRISTIAN WORK AMONG THE SLAVE CASTES 31. SERPENT WORSHIP 32. HINDU CASTE...

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...men Figure Love Marriages Chapter 8 Family System Divorce Chapter 9 Bureaucracy The sweetness of a government job in India Indian Bureaucratic culture Hierarchy inside the bureaucracy The avoidable disasters An earthquake The guilds The common courtesies in English A quotation from History Effect of abstinence Political control on Bureau...

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...lectively, they’re just a mob of Anglo-Indi- ans. Who cares for what Anglo-Indians say? Your salon won’t weld the Departments together and make you mi... ... The Mussuck. How badly he rides. There!’ She blew a kiss to the venerable Indian ad- ministrator with infinite grace. 12 Under the Deodars ‘Now,’ sh... ...erocious hillmen, some- where near Sikkim, whose friendship even the Great Indian Empire would find it worth her while to secure. Now we know that Oti... ...ves stop short and the ready- made ones are not ready. Each well-regulated Indian Cemetery keeps half-a-dozen graves per- manently open for contingenc... ...the mare, nine hundred feet below, spoiling a 35 Rudyard Kipling patch of Indian corn. As the revellers came back from Viceregal Lodge in the mists o... ...eation. It is composed almost entirely of those of the literary or clerkly castes who have received an English education.” “Surely that s a very impor... ... the engine-driver, and the rest are already forming separate he- reditary castes. You may notice this down at Jamalpur in Bengal, one of the oldest r...

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...e by Mr. Blyth, on the habits, voice, and constitution, &c., of the humped Indian cattle, that these had descended from a different aboriginal stock f... ... thinks that all the breeds of poultry have proceeded from the common wild Indian fowl (Gallus bankiva). In regard to ducks and rabbits, the breeds of... ...nsideration. The rock-pigeon is of a slaty-blue, and has a white rump (the Indian sub- species, C. intermedia of Strickland, having it blu- ish); the ... ...turies, the proportional numbers and kinds of trees now growing on the old Indian ruins! The dependency of one organic being on another, as of a paras... ...ors have been described as fighting, bellow- ing, and whirling round, like Indians in a war-dance, 86 On the Origin of Species for the possession of ... ...o an almost incredible degree, and are thus divided into two or even three castes. The castes, moreover, do not gen- erally graduate into each other, ... ...o find gradations in important points of struc- ture between the different castes of neuters in the same species, that I gladly availed myself of Mr. ... ...he im- portant fact for us is, that though the workers can be grouped into castes of different sizes, yet they gradu- ate insensibly into each other, ... ...oduced. Thus, as I believe, the wonderful fact of two dis- tinctly defined castes of sterile workers existing in the same nest, both widely different ...

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...finance; birth, wedding, burial, and riot in the village of twenty warring castes; argument, expos- tulation, persuasion, and the blank despair that a... ...l. Two full months before the time!” “That’s why it comes. I’ve only known Indian riv- ers for five-and-twenty years, and I don’t pretend to understan... ... now royally wasting the revenues accumulated during his minor- ity by the Indian Government. His steam-launch, with its silver-plated rails, striped ...

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...finance; birth, wedding, burial, and riot in the village of twenty warring castes; argument, expostulation, persuasion, and the blank despair that a m... .... Two full months before the time!” “ That’s why it comes. I’ve only known Indian rivers for five-and-twenty years, and I don’ t pretend to understand... ... now royally wasting the revenues accumulated dur- ing his minority by the Indian Government. His steam-launch, 33 The Day’s Work with its silverplat... ...of irrigation canals, the handling of two or three thousand workmen of all castes and creeds, and the payment of vast sums of coined silver. He had fi... ...ubalterns, a Civilian twenty years her senior, one Major, and a man in the Indian Medical Department. This, too, was com- mon property. She had “staye... ...nvass, when his camp and her brother’s joined for a day on the edge of the Indian Desert. He had danced with her several times at the big Christmas ga... ...ir surroundings, and for a night and a day, skirting the edge of the great Indian Desert on a narrow-gauge railway, they remembered how in the days of...

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...f the long running Mississippi, and down to the Mexican sea, Chants of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota, Chants going forth from... ...taracts, forests, volcanoes, groups, Malaysia, Polynesia, and the great West Indian islands. 3 What do you hear Walt Whitman? I hear the workman ... ...d emperors, Confucius himself, the great poets and heroes, the warriors, the castes, all, T rooping up, crowding from all directions, from the Altay m... ... in Manhattan, Or with large steps crossing the prairies out of Illinois and Indiana, Rapidly crossing the West with springy gait and descending the A... ...owa, Minnesota, to sing their songs, (they are inimitable;) Then to Ohio and Indiana to sing theirs, to Missouri and Kansas and Arkansas to sing their... ... advancing, I saw, out of the land of prairies, land of Ohio’s waters and of Indiana, To the rescue the stalwart giant hurry his plenteous offspring, ... ...fferent of lands, indifferent of times, We, enclosers of all continents, all castes, allowers of all theologies, Compassionaters, perceivers, rapport ... ...and the bay of Bengal, The flowing literatures, tremendous epics, religions, castes, Old occult Brahma interminably far back, the tender and junior Bu...