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In the first place, the proportion of literacy among Christian women is far higher than among the Hindu and Muhammadan communities.
Not even this smiling Hindu gentleman, whose smile concealed so much, could read any meaning in those lack-lustre eyes, nor detect any emotion in that high, cool voice. "A document was found, and in this it was recorded that you bore upon your arm the sign of the Seventh Kama."
Though it was windy, an aviator was on the track, when he heard who the visitor was offered to fly for him. ‘Abdu’l-Bahá left his friends and walked out into the middle of the course, where he stood alone watching the biplane making wide circles above him. A Hindu who was learning to fly at the school joined ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s friends and asked: “Who is the man in Eastern dress?”
The seventeenth century was well advanced before the greater part of Southern India came under the rule of the Emperor of Delhi the Shah-un-shah, King of kings, as he was called. His suzerainty was generally acknowledged in those lands which continued under Hindu rulers.
"Go on, it is for me to listen!" "You can break the statement up into a thousand signs and reasons," said Bedient. "We hear such wonderful things about America in Asia in India. Waiting for a ship in Calcutta, I saw a picture-show for the first time. It ran for a half hour, showing the sufferings of a poor Hindu buffeted around the world a long, dreary portion of starvation, imprisonment and pain.
In Calcutta mourners are sometimes hired for one anna a Hindu can get a professional mourner to wail heart-breakingly at the funeral of his least-loved mother-in-law but somehow the relatives of the dead themselves seem to show little evidence of grief. "But where are the bereaved families?"
Yet Christianity has come here, as it has entered all the other sacred cities of India, and under the very shadow of the Hindu holy of holies, within the circle that bounds the favored gate of heaven, it has set up and maintained several of the most prosperous and well attended schools in India.
Recently the writer heard a Hindu companion in a railway car call his servant at night from an adjoining car to come and turn the shade over the compartment lamp that he might have a nap! A well-known writer, in describing the life of a Babu, says: "The Khansama of a Babu is his most favourite servant.
It mentions the Śâttvata and Jayâkhya, which must therefore be older. The most remarkable feature of this literature is its elaborate doctrine of evolution and emanation from the Deity, the world process being conceived in the usual Hindu fashion as an alternation of production and destruction. A distinction is drawn between pure and gross creation.
He worked out his thoughts on this matter in MSS., written from about 1870 to his death two years later, which, never having been prepared for publication, remain in a fragmentary state and have not been published. I quote a few brief characteristic passages: "Is not," he wrote, "the Hindu refusal to see a woman eating strangely like ours to see one naked?
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