ABSTRACT

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.

chapter |26 pages

Modem India and the Indians.

chapter |12 pages

First Impressions.

Bombay, November 10, 1875.

chapter |16 pages

SamĀDh, Sacrifice, Self-Immolation, and Self-Torture

Kaira Districts, 1876.

chapter |8 pages

Indian Rosaries1

chapter |5 pages

Indian Famines.

chapter |4 pages

A Relief Camp.

chapter |55 pages

General Impressions and Notes After Travels in Northern India.

Bombay, March 6, 1876.

chapter |38 pages

Progress of Our Indian Empire.1

Part I.

chapter |42 pages

Progress of Our Indian Empire.

Part II.