Under the Sun Impressions of Indian Cities With a Chapter Dealing With the Lat
Under the Sun Impressions of Indian Cities With a Chapter Dealing With the Lat
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Merias, thieves and descendants of men saved by us from being butchered on the " elephant " by the snake-eating Khonds ; Arudras and Irulas, whose women are sufficiently married if a man allows one of them a whiff from the cheroot in his mouth, or a mouthful from his dinner, perhaps of roast monkey or boiled rat ; Brahmins, who marry plantain trees ; men of Tan j ore, who secure good harvests by swinging men from trees by a hook fixed in the muscles of the back there is not a superstition or a ...caste prejudice of India which does not still flourish in Madras, despite the spread of education and the easy and full rail- way inter-communications which within the last few years have been almost completed in many districts. Perhaps human sacrifice may still be carried on in some remote mountain tract, for all the protestation of the neighbouring tribes ; cer- MADRAS. 159 tainly, some of the customs of the Malabar coast are as unnatural, if not as barbarous. The point of view is all.
Some years ago Lord Ampthill, the late Governor to whom no small part of the continued and confirmed prosperity of the presidency of late years must, in common fairness, be ascribed tried to explain the objections which the Indian Government entertained to the " hook-swinging n practice to which reference has been made.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Merias, thieves and descendants of men saved by us from being butchered on the " elephant " by the snake-eating Khonds ; Arudras and Irulas, whose women are sufficiently married if a man allows one of them a whiff from the cheroot in his mouth, or a mouthful from his dinner, perhaps of roast monkey or boiled rat ; Brahmins, who marry plantain trees ; men of Tan j ore, who secure good harvests by swinging men from trees by a hook fixed in the muscles of the back there is not a superstition or a ...caste prejudice of India which does not still flourish in Madras, despite the spread of education and the easy and full rail- way inter-communications which within the last few years have been almost completed in many districts. Perhaps human sacrifice may still be carried on in some remote mountain tract, for all the protestation of the neighbouring tribes ; cer- MADRAS. 159 tainly, some of the customs of the Malabar coast are as unnatural, if not as barbarous. The point of view is all.
Some years ago Lord Ampthill, the late Governor to whom no small part of the continued and confirmed prosperity of the presidency of late years must, in common fairness, be ascribed tried to explain the objections which the Indian Government entertained to the " hook-swinging n practice to which reference has been made.
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