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![]() ![]() The interior of Indian villages and domestic life. ![]() Them I have got some partial, incomplete, and hasty glimpses into To Indian lawsuits coming before the king in council and from After my return it became my duty to pay attention Many of their ideas from various points of view and under differentĬircumstances. At second-hand, I, likeĮverybody else who sees much of the administrative class, heard Opportunities of knowledge at first-hand. The working of some law among the people, – such alone were my ![]() High rank and cultivated minds with whom my official positionīrought me into acquaintance an examination here and there into Populations brief occasions of friendly intercourse with men of Traversed the external appearance of portions of its multifarious The physical features of a portion of the vast country I A man so situated cannot get any but the most superficial I rarely trusted myself to speak except to give directions to my own Of the vernacular languages, and only a few expressions of the moreĪrtificial lingua franca of the educated classes. I resided there not longer than five years. My ownĬonnection with India was not such as to bring me into personalĬontact with those social and domestic affairs of which you treat. In quiet the tales of Indian life which you have composed. Peculiar to the lives of Indian women may gradually soften andĭear Miss Sorabji, – I have to thank you for allowing me to read May certainly hope and believe, that, like as suttee has disappearedīefore the march of Christianity and of civilization, so other trials It is true that in these stories heroic actions are often performedįrom mistaken motives and through superstitious fears, but we Lives spent in the strict privacy of the purdah, under the ironĭiscipline of custom, and in observing, with reverence and admiration, the way in which the virtues of patience, charity, self-forgetfulness, and devotion to duty, flourish in this silent and Perhaps in these days of stress and strain, of activity andĬompetition, a peculiar interest may be found in contemplating With an unselfishness which amounts to self-sacrifice. Her stories set before us, in the most attractive way, the tender,įaithful, meek, and lowly character of the Indian woman, combined as it so often is with a quiet persistence and strength, and The aim and ambition of Miss Sorabji's life has been to benefitĪnd to serve her countrywomen, and in these pages will be foundĮvidences of her deep sympathy and affection for them. Which, in the case of a male student, would qualify him to practise University education, and to pass successfully the examinations The writer is herself an Indian, and one whose strength ofĬharacter and talent have enabled her to face the difficulties of a Only, and which we are apt to consider and appraise through the They are charmingly told, they are full of incident, and theyĮxhibit to us from the inside, as it were, customs and ways of livingĪnd of thinking which we usually contemplate from the outside This collection of Indian stories will be found both interesting and Urmi Greater Love Behind the Purdah Malappa A Living Sacrifice The Fire is Quenched Achthar Pundit-je The Pestilence at Noonday Love and Life Love and Death. Love and Life behind the Purdah By Cornelia Sorabji Contents Introductory Note by the Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava.Ī Letter to the Author from the Right Hon. With an introductory note by the Marchioness of Dufferin and AvaĪnd a letter to the author from the Right Hon. Love and life behind the purdah Love and life behind the purdah ![]()
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