From the Black Sea Through Persia And India
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But there is one incongruity, one slightly jarring note. And that is the obtrusive brick clock -tower which domi- nates the enclosure at the entrance. Built in a style which might be termed Earty New England Gothic, it must have reminded many an American wanderer of the fire-engine house in his native village, or the ambitious 13 194 A COMPOSITE FAITH but inexpensive church-tower of sanded wood. Far from being intended as a gratuitous insult to the Sikhs, it was most probably a generous donatio...n on the part of the European community, meant to serve as a perpetual ob- ject-lesson in architecture, and as a dignified protest against barbaric excess of ornament.
The religion of the Sikhs originated about the end of the fifteenth century, and according to Mr. J. A. Baines, to whom we are indebted for the admirable census of India (1891), " was due to the teaching of one of the most influential sectarian leaders of a quasi - Unitarian revival amongst the lower classes of Brahmanism " ; and although mainly Brahmanic, the Sikh religion shows traces of the influence of Islam.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
But there is one incongruity, one slightly jarring note. And that is the obtrusive brick clock -tower which domi- nates the enclosure at the entrance. Built in a style which might be termed Earty New England Gothic, it must have reminded many an American wanderer of the fire-engine house in his native village, or the ambitious 13 194 A COMPOSITE FAITH but inexpensive church-tower of sanded wood. Far from being intended as a gratuitous insult to the Sikhs, it was most probably a generous donatio...n on the part of the European community, meant to serve as a perpetual ob- ject-lesson in architecture, and as a dignified protest against barbaric excess of ornament.
The religion of the Sikhs originated about the end of the fifteenth century, and according to Mr. J. A. Baines, to whom we are indebted for the admirable census of India (1891), " was due to the teaching of one of the most influential sectarian leaders of a quasi - Unitarian revival amongst the lower classes of Brahmanism " ; and although mainly Brahmanic, the Sikh religion shows traces of the influence of Islam.
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