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 315
utta, may be gathered from the complaints madeon this point as recently as 1906 and 1907 in some Indiannewspapers. Indian beggars also go the round of the houses of thecharitable, each having his special patrons, who, on fixeddays, distribute relief to the paupers they have, so tospeak, adopted.… … Photo hy ir. Cavtfbel! Oman A T^iKAL iioisi:-ri.viunsK reggar To/acefage 134 MENDICANCY AND MENDICANTS 235 who come for the expected dole with a regularity whichtends to establish a sort of tie between the giver and thereceiver. Of the house-to-house beggars all, or nearly all,proclaim their…
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