INDEX
Reading edition
Affection, 15
Agricultural experiments, 329
Agriculture, 328; colleges of, 328
Animals, 176
Antelope, 177
Anthony, St., 245
Ants, 191; white, 191
Architecture, Indian view of, 17
Art, 60; degenerating, 60; Christian, 64
Artists, Indian, 63
Ascetics, 3, 196, 199; maxims for, 166
Band, native, 102, 140; English, 102; "Europe," 102
Baptism, 23, 338; Nonconformist laxity concerning, 5, 86
Barbel tree, 197
Barber, 271
Bath, 110, 290, 293, 341
Beasts, wild, 170
Bees, 190
Beetles, 189
Beggars, feasts to, 12; Hindu religious, 201
Bells, bullocks', 324
Benson, Father, 156
Bhumya, his conversion, 338
Bible, quoted by Hindus, 4
Bile polar, festival for cattle, 245
Bin, musical instrument, 101
Birds, 185, 187; scaring, 271
Bishop, Indian, 93
Blacksmiths, 271
Blasting, 261
Blister beetle, 189
Bookbinding, 150
Books in India, 143, 148; prayer, 144, 149; price of, 149
Boundary stones, 221, 253
Boy, Indian, 161, 163, 168, 192
Brahmins, 84, 85, 164, 265; ladies, 23; thread, 122
Brain-fever bird, 185
Brass, its polish, 62
Bread, 109
Bribes, 296; on the railway, 296; in trade, 298
Buffalo, 179; the dead, 71
Bugs, 192
Bullocks, 324, 325; drawing water, 98
Bungalow, 292, 297
Burial, 71, 268
Butterflies, 195
Camels, 181
Card-playing, 117
Caretaker, the faithful, 28; his contentment, 29; his prayers, 30
Carpenters, 271
Carpets, 78
Caste, 167, 210, 278; breach of, 168, 237, 341
Catholic Church, 88, 96
Cattle, festival for, 245
Cemetery, Christian, 263; consecrated, 267; Cross, 267; Hindu, 173
Chairs, 56
Character, Indian, 24, 90, 157, 249, 254, 289; shallow, 158, 160, 166
Cheating labourers, 26, 30, 31
Choir-boys, 104
Chowdi, 215; sleeping in, 314
Christian art, 64, 65
Christian Indians, 5, 15, 209, 226; their hospitality, 13, 43; honesty, 242; respect for their mother, 14; dress for, 41; their expenses, 42; their unpunctuality, 51; their meals, 56, 236; panchayat, 68; their happiness, 115; their prayer books, 144, 149; houses, 254, 255
Church at Yerandawana, 19-23, 126, 155, 282
Clarke, Sir George, 103
Clergy, Indian, 89, 90, 91, 92
Clerk, Hindu village, 223, 224, 253
Cobra, 309, 310
Cockroaches, 190
Cold, 275; Indians sensitive to, 276
Collectors, 80, 230
Comfort, increase of, 299, 301
Confessions to police, 217
Confirmation, 94
Conversion of India, 83; of Brahmins, 84, 85; of low castes, 85; in famine time, 85
Cooking, particular about, 108; pots, 56, 271; graceful shape of, 61
Court, High, 212; petty, 212; Police, 214; Registrar's, 265
Courtesy of Indians, 231
Cricket, 130, 285
Crime, 217, 218
Crispin, St., church of, 65, 266
Crocodiles, 182
Cross, Southern, 182
Crows, 187
Customs of East and West, 234, 239, 284, 294
Dacoits, 314, 315
Dance, nautch, 76, 79; religious, 155, 156
Dasara, Hindu festival, 244
Daughter-in-law, 210, 211
Deer, 177
Defects of Indians, 2
Delhi, 177, 181, 196, 198; declaration at, 162
Delhi Mission News, 6
Dhobie, washerman, 43, 317; Christian, 318
Dhota, Hindu garment, 41, 44, 55, 79, 193, 198, 284
Dishonesty, Hindu, 27, 297
Dissenters, 289
Donkey, 179
Drawing, 18, 281
Dress, English, 40, 41, 42, 236, 291, 300, 301; Indian, 41, 44, 45, 46, 65, 236; policeman's, 46
East and West, customs of, 234, 239, 284, 294; travelling, 228, 234; on board ship, 231, 337, 340, 346
Education, 84; mistaken, 146, 283; effects of, 247, 286; rational, 283
Elephants, 180
Employers of labour, 24
English, dress, 40, 41, 42, 57, 343; workers, 95; letters in, 144; advertisements in, 145; literature for Indians, 146; the, in India, 288, 292
Entertainments, 74
European customs, 40; control, 89; compartment, 232; goods, 280
Evening-tide, 335
Eye-fly, 194
Face, Hindu, 115, 208
Fakir, 196
Famine, 85
Feasts, to beggars, 12; village, 138
Fiction, India in, 143
Fingers, eating with, 236
Fire-flies, 183
Flattery, 119
Flies, 194
Flowers, offerings of, 18
Food, 107
Frost, 276
Fuel, 329
Furniture, 78
Games, 130, 285
Garlands, 19, 81, 230
Gifts, 263, 268
Gods, Hindu, 3, 120; conception of, 119, 120; burial of, 118; robbery of, 118
Golden Threshold, The, 111
Gosavies, 198
Government officials, 241
Governors, 238
Greetings, 305
Grinding, 98, 105
Gunpatti, Hindu god, 118
Guru, religious teacher, 202
Gymnasium, village, 137
Heber, Bp., 288
High castes, 84, 208, 248, 306
Hindu college, visitors from, 21
Hinduism, 2, 5, 6, 117, 128; and Christianity, 4, 6, 115, 121, 128, 209, 244, 285, 337, 338; definitions of, 6-10
Hindus, nominal, 58, 59, 121; educated, 247
Hole, Mr. W., pictures by, 127
Home life, absence of, 56; of Brahmin doctor, 57
Honesty, 226, 242, 243; of the dhobie, 322
Horses, 181
Hospitality, 11; Hindu customs concerning, 12; of Indian Christians, 13, 43
Houses, 249, 250, 254; how furnished, 55; Indian in London, 345
Howd, tank, 317
Hyderabad, the Nizam of, 112
Hymns, 104
Idolatry, 2, 208, 337
Immorality, 69
Inam, grant, 74, 264
Inamdar, 74; his house, 78
Insects, 188
Inspector, police, 215
Institute, Indian at Oxford, 45
Irrigation, 330
Itte-dhandu, boys' game, 135
Jackals, 173
Jacob, Sir Swinton, 61
Jain, sect, 342
Jerome, the story of a Brahmin boy, 115
Jewellery, native, 62
Jeypore, museum at, 61
Kala, village of, 171
Kathiawar, 175
Khandala, 320
Kim's talk, 143
King, H.M. the, 153, 162
Kipling, Rudyard, 143, 175
Kite, bird, 187
Kites, 133
Krait, snake, 310
Labour, employers of, 24; dignity of, 129
Land, buying, 263
Landmark, neighbour's, 253
Language, 306
Law-courts, 119, 212
"Lawrence," the, school, 162
Lights, incandescent, 139, 272
Lion, 175
Litigation, 224
Locusts, 183
Low castes, 85, 278
Magisterial inquiry, 67
Mahars, low-caste, 70, 71, 214; boys, 72
Mantis, 195
Manure, 329; farmers and, 331
Map, 222
Marbles, 131
Marriage, 151; of widows, 206, 209
Meals, 55, 107, 207, 236; English and Indian, 107, 109, 238
Medicine-men, 315
Middleton, Bp., 291
Military display, 153, 154
Mills, grinding, 98, 105
Mineral waters, 139
Misconceptions about India, 1, 272, 273, 288
Mission work, 89; heads of, 94, 96
Mohammedans, 302; ascetics, 196; conception of heaven, 303; egg-merchant, 198, 200; and marriage, 302, 304; merchants, 303; saints, 75
Money, 225
Mongoose, 178
Monkeys, 177
Monsoon, 273-5
Moral maxims, 166; instruction, 286
Mosquitoes, 193; net for, 193
Mother, respect for, 13, 16; Swithun's, 15
Mother-in-law, 210, 211
Motor cars, 80, 181; bullocks and, 326
Music, 81, 98, 100, 101; Sir G. Clarke on, 103, 104
Musical instruments, 101
Naidu, Mrs Sarojini, 111; her portrait, 115
National characteristics, 141
Nature, illustrations from, 164; Indian view of, 17; the world of, 182
Nautch, dance, 76, 79
Neatness, lack of, 90, 91
Night, alarms, 309, 313; thieves, 251; travelling by, 99; watchmen, 312
Obedience, Indian, 25
Obstinacy, 159
Oman, Mr. J. C., 166
Pageants, 151
Painting, mural, 64
Palaces, 60
Palanquin bearers, 100
Panchayat, committee of five, 66; Christian, 68
Pan supari, leaf and betel nut, 75, 80; party, 76
Panther, 172
Paper, daily, 300; vernacular, 301
Parsees, 48, 65, 125, 186, 271
Patel, headman, 71, 213, 214, 316; his gift, 264
Patience, 92
Payments, how made, 26
Persian visitors, 126
Philosophy, Hindu, 111
Pictures, from England, 63; by Indian artists, 63
Pigs, wild, 178
Plague Refuge Camp, 281
Pleaders, 225
Plural, use of, 306
Poetry, 112
Police, 213; umbrellas for, 279
Political unrest, 131, 280
Poona City, 77, 164, 281; ancient houses in, 60, 61; modern houses in, 60, 61, 257
Post, cards, 34; offices, 33; postman, 38; post-runners, 32
Postal privileges, 36; service, 32; train-sorters, 35 Potatoes, 335
Potter, 271
Poverty, 54, 108, 225
Prayer, Hindu, 30, 121
Prayer Book valued, 144
Printing, 149
Processions, 151; funeral, 152; religious, 154
Projects, unfinished, 158, 256; imaginary, 257
Property, 221
Proverbial sayings, 270
Psalm cl., 156
Punishment, 161, 213
Purdah women, 81
Purity, 70
Pusa College, 328
Religion, 117; true, 240
Religious controversy, 164; phases, 124
Repartee, 129
Rest-house, 99
Rewards, government, 172
Rivers, 77, 183, 319
Robbery, by train-sorters, 35; in temples, 118
Roman Catholics, 87, 124, 290
Rudeness, to employers, 24, 25; to Indians, 228
Sacred books, Hindu, 3
Salvation Army, 290
Sanskrit, 344
Scenery, oblivious to, 17
Schoolboys, 219; Hindu, 283, 340
Scorpions, 191
Sects, 87, 88
Servants, 295, 297; punctuality, 52; Christian, 242, 244, 269; heathen, 243; of Europeans, 72, 237, 238, 241
Shiggram, carriage, 299
Shinde, pigtail, 284, 339
Shoes, 299
Shops, 300
Sikhs, 343
Singing, 81, 98, 99, 100, 103, 140
Slang, 147
Smell of India, 305
Snakes, 293, 309, 312
Socks, 299
Soldiers, 100
Son, eldest, 332
Sparrows, 186
Spiders, 192
Spirit, Holy, 97
Squirrel, 176
State, native, 119
Station-masters, Indian, 49
Sugar cane, 331; parties, 332; juice, 333
Sun, 277; caution about, 290
Survey Department, 222
Swallows, 186
Swearing, 125, 147
Swithun's mother, 15
Symons, Mr Arthur, 111
Telegrams, 37; abuse of, 37
Temples, Hindu, 122; behaviour in, 117
Thackeray, Mr., 195
Thieving, 218, 250
Tigers, 170; den, 173; tigress, 173
Tilak, Mr., 120, 281
Tips, 269
Titles, 74
Tomb, Mohammedan, 79, 196
Tom Tiddler's ground, 136
Toothbrush, 235
Tops, 132
Torture, 213, 217, 218
Trades, 270; ancestral, 323
"Traveller's tale," 182
Tulsi plant, 58, 208
Tunes, 103; Indian, for hymns, 104
Turban, 44, 284, 343
Umbrellas, 278
Unfinished projects, 158, 256, 258, 260
Unpunctuality, 48; instance of, 49; on the railway, 48, 49; at meals, 52, 53; incurable, 50, 51; amongst Christians, 51, 92, 93, 94; illustration from parables, 52
Unrest, political, 278, 280
Villages, 66
Vultures, 186
Washerman, 317
Wasps, 190
Watchmen, night, 72
Wells, 258, 260
Widows, Hindu, 22, 204; at Yerandawana, 206; garments of, 205; Home for, 205, 207, 299; marriage of, 206, 209
Windows, 56
Wolf-boys, 174
Wolves, 174
Women, their dress, 44, 65; their meals, 55; purdah, 81; grinding, 98, 105, 106
Work, low ideal of, 295
Wrestling, 137; prizes for, 138; competitions, 140
Wrongdoing, 212, 217, 218
Xavier, St Francis, 97
Yerandawana, 15, 18, 19, 33, 74, 126, 154, 196, 202, 206, 263
Yonge, Miss, 21