![]() The Complete Adventures of Feluda, Vol. 1 has 3,797 ratings and 133 reviews. Israt said: Job interview questions and sample answers list, tips, guide and advice. Helps you prepare job interviews and practice interview skills and techniques. Mother India by Katherine Mayo. Title: Mother India. Author: Katherine Mayo. A Project Gutenberg of Australia e. Book *. e. Book No.: 0. Language: English. Character set encoding: Latin- 1(ISO- 8.
Date first posted: May 2. Date most recently updated: March 2. Project Gutenberg of Australia e. Books are created from printed editions. Australia, unless a copyright notice. We do NOT keep any e. The etymology of Bangladesh (Country of Bengal) can be traced to the early 20th century, when Bengali patriotic songs, such as Namo Namo Namo Bangladesh Momo by Kazi. Books in compliance with a particular. Be sure to check the. You may copy it, give it away or re- use it under the terms. Project Gutenberg of Australia License which may be viewed online at. GO TO Project Gutenberg Australia HOME PAGEMother Indiaby. Katherine Mayo. AUTHOR OF. Moyca Newell. THE UNTOUCHABLE. Lately printed in English, under. Jahangir's India. But the facts that it was impossible to forecast the. I should reach, and that for these conclusions they are in no. For this reason the manuscript of this book has not been submitted to. Government of India, nor to any Briton or Indian. It has, however, been reviewed by certain. Indian field. I may, on the other hand, express my deep indebtedness to my two. Miss M. Moyca Newell and Harry Hubert Field, the one for her. India and here, beyond either limit or thanks. K. M. BEDFORD HILLS NEW YORKTable of Contents. Part I. INTRODUCTION: THE BUS TO MANDALAY. XVII. THE SACRED COWXIX. PRINCES OF INDIAPart V. INTERLUDE: INTO THE NORTH. XXIV. THE WORLD- MENACEXXVIII. Calcutta, big. western, modern, with public buildings, monuments, parks, gardens. University, courts of law, hotels, offices, shops. American city; and all backed. Indian town of temples, mosques, bazaars and intricate courtyards. In the courts and alleys and bazaars many little. Bengali. students, in native dress, brood over piles of fly- blown Russian. Rich Calcutta, wide- open door to the traffic of the world and India. India and the world. Decorous, sophisticated Calcutta, where. Government House Garden Parties, pleasantly to make their. Their Excellencies, and pleasantly to talk good English while. You cannot see the street from Government House Gardens, for the walls. But if you could, you would see it filled with traffic- -motor. Paul's Cathedral, past the. Bishop's House, the General Hospital, the London Missionary Society's. Institution, and presently comes to a stop in a rather congested quarter. Her. spiritual domination of the world began about five thousand years ago. Kali has thousands of temples in India, great and small. This of. Calcutta is the private property of a family of Brahmans who have owned. A round hundred of these, . And one of the hundred obligingly. Brahman friend, through the precincts. Let him be called. Mr. Haldar, for that is the family's name. But for his white petticoat- drawers and his white toga, the usual. Bengali costume, Mr. Haldar might have been taken for a well- groomed. Italian gentleman. His English was polished and his manner. Five hundred and ninety acres, tax free, constitute the temple. Pilgrims from far and near, with whom the shrine is. There are also priestly fees to. And the innumerable booths that shoulder each other up and down. Rapidly cleaving a way through the coming and going mass of the. Mr. Haldar leads us to the temple proper. A high platform. roofed and pillared, approached on three sides by tiers of steps of its. At one end, a deep, semi- enclosed shrine in which. Black of face she. Of her four hands. In the shadows. close about her feet stand the priests ministrant. On the long platform before the deity, men and women prostrate. Among them stroll lounging boys. Also, a white bull- calf wanders, while. The history of Kali. We turn the. corner of the edifice to reach the open courtyard at the end opposite the. Here stand two priests, one with a cutlass in his hand, the other. The goat shrieks, for in the air is that smell that. A crash of sound, as before the goddess drums thunder. The second priest. The. blood gushes forth on the pavement, the drums and the gongs before the. Haldar with some pride. And then the ever- present phallic emblem of Siva. Kali's husband. Before them all, little offerings of marigold blossoms. Mr. Haldar leads us through a lane down which, neatly arranged in. All are eager to be. Saddhus- -reverend ascetics- -spring up and pose. One. a madman, flings himself at us, badly scaring a little girl who is being. A burning is in progress. In. the midst of an open space an oblong pit, dug in the ground. This is now. half filled with sticks of wood. On the ground, close by, lies a rather. Indian woman, relaxed as though in a swoon. Her long. black hair falls loose around her, a few flowers among its meshes. Her. forehead, her hands and the soles of her feet are painted red, showing. The relatives, two or three men and a ten- year- old. Crouching at a distance, one old. Five or six beggars like horse- flies nagging about. Now they take up the body and lay it on the pile of wood in the pit. She died only a few hours ago. They heap sticks of wood over her. Then the little boy, her son, walks. After that he throws the. We shall now see the Ganges. Hundreds of thousands of sick. Also, such as would supplicate the goddess. Then most of them devoted a few moments to grubbing. They. hope. And men and women bearing water- jars, descending and. As for the water- carriers, they bring the water as an. It is poured over Kali's feet, and over the feet of the priests. As Mr. Haldar took leave of us, just at the rear of the outer temple. I noticed a drain- hole about the size of a man's hand, piercing the. By this hole, on a little flat stone. As I. looked, suddenly out of the hole gushed a flow of dirty water, and a. From the floor of the shrine it is. It is found most excellent against. The sick who have strength to move drink it. Ganges. To those too ill to come, their. That is not India. Only the lowesc and. Indians are Kali worshipers. His comment was this. It is true that in the. Kali is larger than the. Vishnu, perhaps because the latter. But. hundreds of thousands of Brahmans, everywhere, worship Kali, and the. Kali Ghat will include Hindus of all castes and conditions. India. Its population is three times greater than ours. Its import and. export trade- -as yet but the germ of the possible- -amounted, in the year. Review of the Trade of India In 1. Department of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics, Calcutta, 1. His further ideas, if such he. India as their scene. It was dissatisfaction with this status that sent me to India, to see. Leaving untouched the realms of religion, of politics, and of the. I would confine my inquiry to such workaday ground as public health. I would try to determine, for example, what. None of these points could well be wrapped in . A foreign. stranger prying about India, not studying ancient architecture, not. Especially if. that stranger develops an acute tendency to ask questions. I should like. it to be accepted that I am neither an idle busybody nor a political. American citizen seeking test facts to lay. In the period that followed, the introductions that both gave. Indians. and of British, official or private, all over India, made possible a. Madras. and Peshawar, Bombay and Calcutta- -attribute the things of one of these. Everywhere I talked with health officers, both Indian and British. I visited. hospitals of many sorts and localities, talked at length with the. I made long sorties in the. North- West Frontier to Madras, sometimes. I went with English nurses into bazaars and courtyards and inner. I saw, as well. the homes of the rich. I studied the handling of confinements, the care. I noted the personal habits of various. I visited. agricultural stations and cattle- farms, and looked into the general. I investigated the animal sanctuaries. Indian piety. I saw the schools, and discussed with teachers. The sittings of the various. India and provincial, repaid attendance by the light. I sought and. found private opportunity to question eminent Indians- -princes. India, thrown out upon the background of my personal. And just this excellent Indian frankness finally led me to think that. India. Still more: that you can. West will, to a. man, see our own concern. John Smith of 2. 3 Main Street may care little enough about the ancestry. Peter Jones, and still less about his religion, his philosophy, or his. But if Peter cultivates habits of living and ways of. John will want. details. Photo by Harry Hubert Field. THE GOAT- SLAYERSPriests in Kali- ghat (Seepage 6.)? By what right are. Legislative Assembly Debates, 1. Vol. Young India, March 2. Why are our mutual. Why is our manhood itself so brief? Why do we. tire so soon and die so young? Our very souls are poisoned. Nothing can. be done- -nothing, anywhere, but to mount the political platform and. When Britain. has abdicated and gone, then, and not till then, free men breathing free. Mother. this: The British administration of India, be it good, bad, or indifferent. Inertia. helplessness, lack of initiative and originality, lack of staying power. Indian not. only of today, but of long- past history. All, furthermore, will continue. His soul and body are indeed. But he himself wields and hugs his chains and with. No agency but a new spirit within his own breast. And his arraignments of outside elements, past. Take a girl child twelve years old, a pitiful physical specimen in. Force motherhood upon her at the earliest possible. Rear her weakling son in intensive vicious practices that drain. Give him no outlet in sports. Give him. habits that make him, by the time he is thirty years of age, a decrepit. Take a huge population, mainly rural, illiterate and loving its. Try to give it primary education without employing any of its. Will you ask why that people's education. Take bodies and minds bred and built on the lines thus indicated. Will. you ask why the death rate is high and the people poor? Whether British or Russians or Japanese sit in the seat of the. Indian. development toward freedom, beyond the pace it is traveling today, is the. India, wasting no more time in talk, recriminations.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. Archives
September 2017
Categories |