European Colonies, in Various Parts of the World, Viewed in Their Social, Moral, and Physical Condition

Abstract

Difficulty of describing the aborigines of India, page 1.First impressions of a foreigner on arriving in that country, 2. -Sir W. Jones's researches, 5.-Hindoa character depreciated by Europeans, 6. - Prejudiced notions, 8. - Antiquity of the Hindoos as a civilized nation, 10. - Their unparalleled national permanence, 12.-Their institutions, 13.- Empire of Hindostan, 14.-wronderful and unexampled spectacle, 15.Principal causes which appear to have operated in keeping united the various parts of so vast a social structure, 15.Institution of castes, 16. - Aversion of the Hindoos to foreigners, 24. - Unlimited toleration of religious sectarianism, 27. - Religion of the Hindoos, 29.-Brahmanical corruptions of it, 31.-Pagan fables, 32.-Penitential austerities, 34.-Religi. OU8 code of the Hindoos, 37.-Indifference to religion in the civilized states of Europe, 38. - Theocratic system, 41.-Its results, 42.-Personal appearance of the people of Hindostan, 45. -Little known of their private life and opinions, 47.-Hindoo literature and science, 49.-Fondness of the inhabitants for music, 49.-Art of painting not in esteem in India, 50.-Metaphysical disputations, 52.-Doctrine of metempsychosis, 55.Monotonous character of domestic life amongst the Hindoos, 56.-Festivals and holydays, 56.-Popular prejudice respecting the wealth of the inhabitants, 58.-Their indifference to riches, 59.-Causes of this, 60.-Their prodigal expenditure in marriage ceremonies, 61.- works of public charity, 62.-Harmonious life of the Hindoas, 64.-Curse of polygamy, 65 _ Filial affection, 66.-Pious act of penance, 61.-IndiffercDce to pain, 67.-Unconqueruble attachment to their national manners and religion, GB.- Unprincipled avarice of Europeans, 69.-Conversation between an Englishman and a Brahman, 70.-Dislike of innovation by the Hindoos, 71. - Their distrust of our institutions, 72. - Ulisuccessful attempts to convert the natives of India to Christianity, 73.-Cureer of a missionary in India, 75. - lmpolicy of forcing the Hindoos to conform to our institutions,77.