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Lectures on India: also, descriptions of remarkable customs and personages in other pagan and Mohammedan countries
| Content Provider | HathiTrust Digital Library |
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| Author | Wright, Caleb Duff, Alexander Weitbrecht, John James |
| Description | Costumes and remarkable personages in India.--Lectures on India. Lecture I.-- Lectures on India. Lecture II.--A lecture on the condition of women in pagan and Mohammedan countries.--Curiosities and remarkable customs in pagan Mohammedan countries.--Description of the habits and superstitions of the Thugs; a sect who profess to be divinely authorized to plunder and murder.--Specimens of the Shasters, or sacred books of the Brahmins [with A description of the Shasters, by J. J. Weitbrecht].--Description of two pagan festivals, celebrated annually in Calcutta, at an expense of three millions of dollars, by Alexander Duff.--Superstitions of the Ashantees, especially those which lead them to sacrifice, on certain occasions, thousands of human victims |
| Related Links | https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t6d22mn31 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | C. Wright |
| Publisher Date | 1848-01-01 |
| Publisher Place | Boston |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Rights License | Items in this record are available as Public Domain and as Public Domain, Google-digitized. View the access and use profile at http://www.hathitrust.org/access_use#pd and at http://www.hathitrust.org/access_use#pd-google. Please see individual items for rights and use statements |
| Subject Keyword | Social life and customs India Social life and customs |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Book |
