From Adam’s Peak to Elephanta
by Edward Carpenter
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About this eBook
- Author
- Carpenter, Edward, 1844-1929
- Title
- From Adam's Peak to Elephanta : Sketches in Ceylon and India
- Original Publication
- London: S. Sonnenschein & co., 1892.
- Credits
- Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- DS: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Asia
- Subject
- Music -- India -- History and criticism
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 72756
- Release Date
- January 19, 2024
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.From Adam’s Peak to Elephanta:
- 2.PREFACE
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS — CEYLON
- 5.FROM ADAM’S PEAK TO ELEPHANTA. — CHAPTER I. COLOMBO.
- 6.CHAPTER II. KANDY AND PEASANT LIFE.
- 7.CHAPTER III. KURUNÉGALA.
- 8.CHAPTER IV. ADAM’S PEAK AND THE BLACK RIVER.
- 9.CHAPTER V. BRITISH LAW-COURTS AND BUDDHIST TEMPLES.
- 10.CHAPTER VI. ANURÁDHAPURA: A RUINED CITY OF THE JUNGLE.
- 11.CHAPTER VII. A NIGHT-FESTIVAL IN A HINDU TEMPLE. — A VISIT TO A GÑÁNI
- 12.CHAPTER VIII. A VISIT TO A GÑÁNI.
- 13.CHAPTER IX. CONSCIOUSNESS WITHOUT THOUGHT.
- 14.CHAPTER X. METHODS OF ATTAINMENT.
- 15.CHAPTER XI. TRADITIONS OF THE ANCIENT WISDOM-RELIGION. — INDIA
- 16.CHAPTER XII. THE SOUTH INDIAN TEMPLES.
- 17.CHAPTER XIII. MADRAS AND CALCUTTA.
- 18.CHAPTER XIV. BENARES.
- 19.CHAPTER XV. THE ANGLO-INDIAN AND THE OYSTER.
- 20.CHAPTER XVI. DELHI AND AGRA.
- 21.CHAPTER XVII. BOMBAY. — THE OLD ORDER AND THE NEW INFLUENCES
- 22.CHAPTER XVIII. THE OLD ORDER: CASTE AND COMMUNISM.
- 23.CHAPTER XIX. THE NEW INFLUENCES: WESTERN SCIENCE AND COMMERCIALISM. — Transcriber’s Notes
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