The Hindoos as they Are
by Sivachandra Vasu
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About this eBook
- Author
- Sivachandra Vasu
- Title
- The Hindoos as They Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal
- Credits
- Produced by Steven Gibbs, Julia Neufeld and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- DS: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Asia
- Subject
- Hindus
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 37722
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37722
- Release Date
- October 11, 2011
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE HINDOOS AS THEY ARE
- 2.SHIB CHUNDER BOSE.
- 3.CONTENTS.
- 4.PREFATORY NOTE.
- 5.INTRODUCTION.
- 6.I. — THE HINDOO HOUSEHOLD.
- 7.II. — THE BIRTH OF A HINDOO.
- 8.III. — THE HINDOO SCHOOL BOY.
- 9.IV. — VOWS OF HINDOO GIRLS.
- 10.V. — MARRIAGE CEREMONIES.
- 11.VI. — THE BROTHER FESTIVAL.
- 12.VII. — THE SON-IN-LAW FESTIVAL.
- 13.VIII. — THE DOORGA POOJAH FESTIVAL.
- 14.IX. — THE KALI POOJAH FESTIVAL.
- 15.X. — THE SARASWATI POOJAH.
- 16.XI. — THE FESTIVAL OF CAKES.
- 17.XII. — The Holi Festival.
- 18.XIII. — CASTE.
- 19.XIV. — A BRAHMIN.
- 20.XV. — THE BENGALEE BABOO.
- 21.XVI. — THE KOBIRAJ OR NATIVE PHYSICIAN.
- 22.XVII. — HINDOO FEMALES.
- 23.XVIII. — POLYGAMY.
- 24.XIX. — HINDOO WIDOWS.
- 25.XX. — SICKNESS, DEATH, AND SHRAD , OR FUNERAL CEREMONY.
- 26.XXI. — SUTTEE, OR THE IMMOLATION OF HINDOO WIDOWS.
- 27.XXII. — THE ADMIRED STORY OF THE SABITRI BRATA, — THE WONDERFUL TRIUMPH OF EXALTED CHASTITY.
- 28.APPENDIX. — Note A. — OBSERVANCES AND RITES DURING PREGNANCY. — Note B. — THE GODDESS SOOBACHINEE. — Note C. — Note D. — THE BAMACHAREE FOLLOWERS OF KALI. — FOOTNOTES: — Transcriber's Notes:
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