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Malabari, the famous Parsee, pupil of a Mission School, doubting if it is possible for the Englishman to be a Christian in the sense of Christ's Christianity, the implication being that an Indian may. What element of truth is there in the idea, we may well ask?
He died at Calcutta in 1884. Mr. Behramji Malabari, an advocate of a higher marriage age for girls of the Bombay side of India. The late Mr. Justice M.G. Ranade, a social reformer of Bombay. The late Mr. Justice K.T. Telang, C.I.E., an opponent of child marriages and a social reformer of Bombay. The late Raja Sir T. Madhava Rao, K.C.S.I., a social reformer, of the Madras Presidency died in 1891.
The great Bombay reformer, the Parsee, Malabari, is not even a Hindu. The founder of the Arya sect, the late Dyanand Saraswati, was out of caste altogether, being the son of a brahman father and a low-caste mother.
Over against it they set up the Justice of God and the certainty of goodness and wickedness receiving each its meed. The biographer of the Parsee philanthropist, Malabari, a forceful and otherwise well-informed writer, sets forth that idea of salvation by faith, or an idea closely akin. He is explaining why his religious-minded hero did not accept the religion of his missionary teachers.
As long ago as 1880 Professor Max Müller, ever anxious for the interests of his Indian fellow-subjects, when Mr. Malabari came to ask him how he could rouse English public opinion with regard to the injuries inflicted on young girls by Hindu child-marriages, answered him at once, "Write a short pamphlet and send it to the women of England.
The biographer of the modern in ideas. Indian reformer, Malabari, a Parsee writing of a Parsee, and representing Western India, is impressed by the singular fate that has destined the far-away British to affect India and her ideals so profoundly. Crossing to the east side of India, we seek a trustworthy witness.
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