Modern India and the Indians

ISBN-13: 9780415244961 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 388 str.

Monier Monier-Williams;Monier Monier-Williams

Opis

First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Spis treści

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.

O autorze

Sir Monier Monier-Williams