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Winter India (1903)
by Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore
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Winter India is a very good travel-book of the lighter kind. It is the work of an experienced traveler and writer of travels, a book of the pleasant, fluent, chattering variety, written frankly from the tourist's point of view. The author cares little for foreigners, and less for foreign problems; she simply likes to see things, and is clever in describing them. A good illustration of her style, which is always animated and often amusing, is afforded by the account of her first impression of Nautch dancing....

The author pretends to no sympathy with the people whom she is observing: "All these diverse races and peoples are picturesque to look upon, with their graceful draperies of brilliant colors and the myriad forms of turbans; but they are not an attractive, a winning, and sympathetic, or a lovable people. They are as antipathetic and devoid of charm as the Chinese, as callous, as deficient in sympathy and the sense of pity as those next neighbors of theirs in Asia, and as impossible for the Occidental to fathom or comprehend,—an irresistible, inexplicable, unintelligible repulsion controlling one." —From the review in the Atlantic Monthly July 1903

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Winter India

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THE SACRED BO-TREE AND THE DIAMOND THRONE, BUDDHA-GAYA.

THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE AND THE VERANDA OF KNOWLEDGE.

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Winter India


By
Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore

Author of "Jinrikisha Days in Japan," "Java: The Garden of the East," and "China: The Long-Lived Empire"

New York
The Century Co.
1903

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Copyright, 1903, by
The Century Co.

Published March, 1903

THE DE VINNE PRESS

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TO

CAROLINE TOUSEY BURKHAM

THE FRIEND OF

AN INDIAN WINTER

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CONTENTS

  1. Introduction
  2. chapterpage
  3. I On India's Coral Strand 3
  4. II Trichinopoli and Tanjore 21
  5. III With Chidambram's Brahmans 34
  6. IV For the Honor and Glory of Shiva 51
  7. V Madras and the Seven Pagodas 64
  8. VI Madras and Calcutta 80
  9. VII Calcutta in Christmas Week 89
  10. VIII The Greatest Thing in the World 105
  11. IX Mahabodhi, the Place of Great Intelligence 116
  12. X The Sacred Bo-tree 133
  13. XI The Greatest Sight in the World 149
  14. XII Benares 165
  15. XIII Lucknow 177
  16. XIV Agra 185
  17. XV Akbar, the Greatest Mogul of Them All 202
  18. XVI Delhi 213
  19. XVII Old Delhi 227
  20. XVIII Lahore 239
  21. XIX The End of the Indian Empire 256
  22. XX Through Khyber Pass with the Caravans 276
  23. XXI Amritsar 298
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  24. XXII Simla 312
  25. XXIII Alwar 323
  26. XXIV Gwalior 335
  27. XXV Jeypore 344
  28. XXVI Mount Abu and Ahmedabad 357
  29. XXVII The Caves of Ellora and Karli 369
  30. XXVIII Bombay 383
  31. Index 393
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS


  1. The Sacred Bo-tree and the Diamond Throne, Buddha-Gaya Frontispiece.
  2. PAGE
  3. Tamil Children 5
  4. The Great Gopura, Madura Temple 13
  5. Detail of Gopura, Madura Temple 19
  6. Indian Lotas 27
  7. Gopura and Tank, Chidambram Temple 43
  8. Pattu Thacheadar 57
  9. Monolithic Temples at Mahabalipur 67
  10. The Village Street 77
  11. The Ruins and Pagodas of Pagan 91
  12. From photograph by Bourne & Shepard.
  13. The Fort at Mandalay 91
  14. Vases from the Sakya Stupa at Piprawah 121
  15. The Sarcophagus in the Cave 121
  16. The Ekka 124
  17. The Great Temple at Buddha-Gaya and the Sacred Bo-tree 127
  18. Asoka's Rail, Buddha-Gaya 143
  19. The "Women's Ghat, Benares 151
  20. The Burning-Ghat, Benares 159
  21. Fakirs at Benares 169
  22. On the Ganges 173
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  23. The Taj Mahal 187
  24. Private Audience-Hall and Jasmine Tower in Agra Palace. Taj Mahal in Distance 197
  25. Mausoleum of Selim Chisti, Fatehpur Sikri 207
  26. Kutab minar 219
  27. Detail of Kutab minar 231
  28. Street Dancers, Delhi 237
  29. The Roofs and Balconies of Lahore 245
  30. School-boys in the Vazir Khan Mosque, Lahore 251
  31. Afghan Falconer, Peshawar 251
  32. The Mad Molla, Peshawar 269
  33. Caravans in the Khyber Pass 287
  34. The Golden Temple, Amritsar 301
  35. Window at Gwalior 307
  36. The Hall of Audience, Jeypore 315
  37. The Old City of Amber, from the Top of the Deserted Palace 325
  38. The Deserted Palace, from the Lake, Amber 331
  39. The Hall of Mirrors 337
  40. Interior of Jain Temple, Mount Abu 349
  41. Ceiling of Jain Temple, Mount Abu 359
  42. Tracery Window, Ahmedabad 365
  43. Rock-cut Temple at Ellora 371
  44. The Great Cave-temple, Karli 379
  45. "Please Buy My Niklass" 387

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