ABSTRACT

First published in 1930, the author asserts that this book presents a human India ‘in all sorts of conditions and moods’. It details her first-hand experiences as a female missionary in India over the course of thirty-three years in India along with some further accounts related by eyewitnesses. It avoids proposing theories of giving abstract general pronouncements but instead focuses on the individual people with the intention that it would promote greater understanding of the nation by westerners. This book will be of interest to students of Indian, colonial and women’s history.

chapter I|19 pages

IN CAMP

chapter II|11 pages

AN AFTERNOON IN HINDU HOMES

chapter III|9 pages

BY HOLY RIVERS

chapter IV|15 pages

DOMESTIC AFFAIRS

chapter V|6 pages

PRESSURE

chapter VI|13 pages

THE GREAT ROCK

chapter VII|6 pages

BY THE WAYSIDE

chapter VIII|9 pages

EMBER DAYS

chapter IX|13 pages

AMONG THE LOW CASTE

chapter X|9 pages

VISITORS

chapter XI|6 pages

AT FESTIVAL TIME

chapter XII|12 pages

IN VILLAGES AND TOWNS

chapter XIII|16 pages

IN AND OUT OF THE BOARDING HOME

chapter XIV|13 pages

GREYING GOLD

chapter XV|17 pages

FERVENT IN SPIRIT

chapter XVI|10 pages

SECRET BREAD

chapter XVII|8 pages

GOLDEN LEAVES

chapter XVIII|20 pages

A SOLITARY

chapter XIX|15 pages

IN SCHOOLS AND STREETS

chapter XX|12 pages

TWO BRIDES AND A WIFE