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COLOMBO. PAGES The Suez Canal--Port Said--Gulf of Suez--The Red Sea-- Colombo--Its streets and population--Picturesque glimpses--Tommy Atkins in a jinrickshaw--The Tamils and the Cinghalese--Costume and Character--Language and Literature--The British and the Eurasians--Social arrangements and amenities--"Spicy gales"--The coco-nut palm--A catamaran 5-25

KANDY AND PEASANT LIFE.

Primitive habits of the Cinghalese--"Ajax" arrives from England--A peasant-cabin near Kandy--Marriage-customs-- Devil-dancing--Kalua and Kirrah--Their rice-fields and mode of life--The great Buddhist temple at Kandy--The tooth-relic--Ancient MSS.--A Librarian-priest--The talipot palm--The British and the natives--The "oyster"-- Nuwara Ellia 26-39

KURUN?GALA.

Cinghalese views on Politics--Kornegalle--The Elephant-rock--The general landscape in Ceylon--Tanks and irrigation--The Paddy tax--Modern Commercial policy--Poverty of the people--The village bath--Decorum and passivity in manners--The bazaar and the shops--My friend the opium-seller--The policeman--The gaol and the prisoners--A Tamil official and his mode of life--The Bungalow--Mosquitos--Vegetable curries--The Hindu priest in the household--Native servants, their relation to British masters--The pariahs, and our slum-dwellers 40-59

ADAM'S PEAK AND THE BLACK RIVER.

BRITISH LAW-COURTS AND BUDDHIST TEMPLES.

The courts a great centre of popular interest--A means of wreaking personal revenge--The district court--A case of burglary--The British ideal of life does not appeal to the natives--A Tamil student of philosophy--To Dambulla in a bullock-cart--A coterie of Eurasians--The cave-temples of Dambulla--A boy-priest and his cook--Other Buddhist temples 86-97

ANUR?DHAPURA: A RUINED CITY OF THE JUNGLE.

A NIGHT-FESTIVAL IN A HINDU TEMPLE.

CONSCIOUSNESS WITHOUT THOUGHT.

What is the nature of a G??ni's experience? Answer given in modern thought-terms--Slow evolution of a new form of consciousness--Many a slip and pause by the way--A consciousness without thought--Meaning of "Nirwana"-- Phenomena of hypnotism--Theory of the fourth dimension-- The true quality of the soul is Space, by which it is present everywhere--Freedom, Equality--The democratic basis of Eastern philosophy 153-163

METHODS OF ATTAINMENT.

TRADITIONS OF THE ANCIENT WISDOM-RELIGION.

THE SOUTH INDIAN TEMPLES.

MADRAS AND CALCUTTA.

BENARES.

The plains of the Ganges--The crops, and the peasant life-- Sentiment of the great expanse--Sacredness of the river-- Far-back worship of Siva--Benares a centre of Hindu life-- The streets and shops--The Golden Temple--The riverside, characteristic scenes--A spring festival--A talk with a yogi--The burning ghauts--Panna Lall wants to bathe-- Religious ablutions--A self-mutilated fakir 252-267

THE ANGLO-INDIAN AND THE OYSTER.

Allahabad--Difficulty of really knowing India--The great gulf of race-difference--The Hindu does not understand "Duty"--The duty-loving Englishman does not understand the Hindu--Race-divisions in the United States--We came to India as conquerors--The gulf remains, and will remain-- Criticisms by an educated "oyster"--Aligarh affords an instance of friendly feeling between the two sections-- The M.A.O. College--A convivial dinner-party--Sir Syed Ahmed and the Mahomedan influence--Horse-fair at Aligarh-- Cabulees, and a native wrestling-bout 268-281

DELHI AND AGRA.

Approach to Delhi--The Fort and the old Palace--The town and population--The Jumma Mosque--The environs of Delhi, a waste of ruined cities--The Kutab Minar and the old fortress of Lalkab--Agra, the Fort and the Palace--The Jessamine Tower--Lovely marble and mosaic--The Taj at twilight--A fairy scene--Flocks of green parrots-- Moonlight on the Jumna--"Do we not respect our women?"-- A coterie of professors--The population of Agra--Scenes at the railway stations--A favorable specimen of Young India--An incident in the train 282-298

BOMBAY.

The native Bombay a wonderful spectacle--Workshops, saleshops, opium dens, theatres, temples, mosques--The population, Mahrattas and Parsees--The modern city and the manufacturing quarter--The Parsee nose--Justice Telang, a Mahratta--The Bunya Caste--Tribhovan Das at home--View from the Malabar Hill--A Bunya wedding--Native theatres-- The Salvation Army--Across the harbor to Elephanta--The great cave-temple--Sculptured panels, the Hindu Trinity-- The human-divine life of Siva--Impressive effect of the whole--An opium den--Various sorts of "ecstasy" produced by these and other drugs--The proletariat at home--Music and conversation--Dream of a "United India"--Bombay at night--On the way to Aden--A calm and starlit ocean--A beautiful panorama. 299-324

THE OLD ORDER: CASTE AND COMMUNISM.

Remarkable social movement in India--Complexity and corruption of Caste system--The Brahmans--Defence of caste from native point of view--Specimens of caste regulation--Caste tyranny--Story of a widow re-marriage-- Pharisaism of respectability--Caste in its other aspect as a Trade-Guild--Tempering competition--Instances of this--Communism, the second great feature of social life-- Village, Caste and Family communism--The last still flourishing--Anecdotes--Old sanctions being destroyed by commercialism--Sacredness of Family tie 327-344

THE NEW INFLUENCES: WESTERN SCIENCE AND COMMERCIALISM.

Great spread of Western education--Euclid and Political Economy at Tuticorin--Schools and Colleges throughout India--Cricket and golf--Young India--"We are all Agnostics now"--Similar spread of Commercialism--Interior of a cotton-mill at Bombay--Large profits, conditions of labor--Numerous trading posts and clerkships--The National Indian Congress--Its ideals and influence-- Disliked by the British--The social gulf again--Our future in India--The break-up of village life--Problem of pauperism, Sir Henry Maine--Incongruity of Commercialism with the genius of India--Probable ascendancy of the former for a time--But only for a time 345-363

CINGHALESE MAN 14

A JAFFNA TAMIL 15

JINRICKSHAW 17

CINGHALESE GIRL 19

KALUA 27

PLOUGHING IN THE RICE-FIELDS 32

BUDDHIST LIBRARIAN-PRIEST 34

KANDY, GENERAL VIEW 36

NATIVE HUT 42

NATIVE STREET, WITH SHOPS 47

VEDDAHS, ABORIGINES OF CEYLON 56

RICE-BOATS ON THE KALUGANGA 76

GROUP OF TAMIL COOLIES 80

TAMIL GIRL PLUCKING TEA 83

BULLOCK-HACKERY, OR LIGHT CART 87

CINGHALESE COUNTRY-CART 92

JETAWANAR?MA D?GOBA 98

THUPAR?MA D?GOBA 104

A RUINED BATHING-TANK, ANUR?DHAPURA 108

SMALL GUARDIAN FIGURE, BUDDHIST SCULPTURE 113

A TAMIL MAN 119

NAUTCH GIRL 129

GREAT PAGODA AT TANJORE 208

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