Monier Monier-Williams

Modern India and the Indians

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is Volume VIII of eleven in a series on India: History, Economy and Society. Originally published in 1891, this includes a impressions, notes and essays on the modern India of the time including the five gates of India- Gibraltar, Malta, Port Said, Perim and Aden and looking at Indian famines, religion, travel accounts of North and Southern India and funeral ceremonies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 388
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 487g
• ISBN-13: 9781138862166
• ISBN-10: 1138862169
• Artikelnr.: 42489313

Autorenporträt

Sir Monier Monier-Williams

Inhaltsangabe

The Five Gates of India-Gibraltar, Malta, Port Said, Perim, and Aden
First Impressions
The Villages and Rural Population of India
Sam?dh, Sacrifice, Self-immolation, and Self-Torture
The Towers of Silence, and the P?rs? Religion
Funeral Ceremonies and Offerings to Ancestors at Bombay, Benares, and Gay?
Indian Rosaries
Indian Famines
A Relief Camp
General Impressions and Notes after Travels in Northern India
General Impressions and Notes after Travels in Southern India
Indian and European Civilization in their relation to each other and in their effect on the Progress of Christianity
Indian Muhammadanism in its relation to Christianity, and the prospects of Missionary Enterprise towards it
The Three Religions of India compared with each other and with Christianity
Progress of our Indian Empire. Part I. Progress of our Indian Empire. Part II. Promotion of Goodwill and Sympathy between England and India.