Author : Richard Carnac Temple
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330532614
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)
Book Synopsis Paper Read by Colonel Temple, on the Women of India, at the Royal Palace Hotel, Kensington, on March 8th, 1899 (Classic Reprint) by : Richard Carnac Temple
Download or read book Paper Read by Colonel Temple, on the Women of India, at the Royal Palace Hotel, Kensington, on March 8th, 1899 (Classic Reprint) written by Richard Carnac Temple and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Paper Read by Colonel Temple, on the Women of India, at the Royal Palace Hotel, Kensington, on March 8th, 1899 With your kind permission I must commence my task this evening with some preliminary information. There are, as you are so often glibly informed, some 300,000,000 people in India, and you may infer from such a statement, though this fact is not usually brought prominently to your notice, that so vast a population as this is most heterogeneous in its composition. It is to this heterogeneousness that I have to draw your special attention, because the chief characteristic of Indian domestic polity is extreme subdivision. The tendency among all classes of the natives of India is towards the social isolation of groups with contracted interests, and the consequent accentuation of minute differences in habits of life. The results of this are what is generally known as "caste," and "caste" is best denned as eating, drinking and smoking together, and intermarrying. Now, it is caste that underlies and controls all social matters that are peculiarly Indian. At first sight, therefore, in such circumstances, there can be no such thing as a common method of life among the women of a population, which is an ill-assorted compost of wild and savage tribes of diverse origin, of Brahmans and orthodox Hindus, of heterodox Hindus and non-Brahmanists by conviction and birth, of Buddhists and Jains and Parsis, of Muhammadans and Jews and Christians of very long standing, of Aryan and Dravidian races, of aboriginal clans of Aryan and non-Aryan descent, of highly cultivated communities and completely ignorant tribes, of whole peoples within and without the pale of Oriental civilisation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
