Cults, customs and superstitions of India. Rev. and enl. ed. With illus. from photographs and from drawings by William Campbell Oman (1908)
Oman, John Campbell, 1841-1911 · London T.F. Unwin · leaf 308
orces poverty andbodily infirmities into the background of the social world,in order to keep up appearances and to maintain what itbelieves to be a proper standard of national respectability. Turn to India and a widely different picture presentsitself. There, as in sunny Italy and other southern… … A RELIGIOUS MENDICANT To face page 1^1 MENDICANCY AND MENDICANTS 231 may show itself boldly in the light of day without beingregarded with the contempt bordering upon detestationwhich greets it in England. Bodily infirmities, too, donot amongst Indians give rise to that almost terrifiedavoidance…
Superstition · India -- Social life and customs · India -- Religion
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