An Indian Olio
An Indian Olio
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192 AN INDIAN OLIO.
Assertion goes no way in argument. I will now adduce authorities in support of what I have written.
Si-r W. Denison, Governor of Madras in 1862, says in his " Varieties of Viceregal Life : " " Every woman has rings in her ears and her nose, necklaces in the plural number, armlets, bangles, &c. The commonest labourer spends his money in this unproductive way, and his superiors set him the example. The quantity of money thus locked up is incredible, and the loss to the country... from this unproductive way of dealing with earnings is immense. The artisan or labourer hoards his wages and buys a ring or a silver girdle ; the rajah hoards his revenue, probably cheats his creditors, and buys all sorts of useless baubles. " In Mr. David Macpherson's "History of European Commerce with India, " published in 1812, the following passage occurs : " The Hindoo, whose food is rice, whose drink is water or milk, to whom wine or strong drink is an object of abomination ; and who, if he strictly acts up to his religious principles, would sooner lay down his own life than put any living creature to death, or permit a morsel of animal food to enter his mouth ; whose warm climate renders any clothing, beyond what decency re- quires, intolerable, and whose light clothing is made by himself and his family from the cotton produced in his own fertile fields; whose customs and religion, to which he adheres with the most inflexible constancy, render utterly inadmissible many articles of enjoyment and com- fort which our habits have rendered almost necessary SELF-DENIAL OF A HINDOO VILLAGER.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
192 AN INDIAN OLIO.
Assertion goes no way in argument. I will now adduce authorities in support of what I have written.
Si-r W. Denison, Governor of Madras in 1862, says in his " Varieties of Viceregal Life : " " Every woman has rings in her ears and her nose, necklaces in the plural number, armlets, bangles, &c. The commonest labourer spends his money in this unproductive way, and his superiors set him the example. The quantity of money thus locked up is incredible, and the loss to the country... from this unproductive way of dealing with earnings is immense. The artisan or labourer hoards his wages and buys a ring or a silver girdle ; the rajah hoards his revenue, probably cheats his creditors, and buys all sorts of useless baubles. " In Mr. David Macpherson's "History of European Commerce with India, " published in 1812, the following passage occurs : " The Hindoo, whose food is rice, whose drink is water or milk, to whom wine or strong drink is an object of abomination ; and who, if he strictly acts up to his religious principles, would sooner lay down his own life than put any living creature to death, or permit a morsel of animal food to enter his mouth ; whose warm climate renders any clothing, beyond what decency re- quires, intolerable, and whose light clothing is made by himself and his family from the cotton produced in his own fertile fields; whose customs and religion, to which he adheres with the most inflexible constancy, render utterly inadmissible many articles of enjoyment and com- fort which our habits have rendered almost necessary SELF-DENIAL OF A HINDOO VILLAGER.
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