The Web of Indian Life. By Sister Nivedita (Margaret E. Noble). Rs. 1-12.
Contents.— 1. The Setting of the Warp; 2. The Eastern Mother; 3. Of the Hindu Women as Wife. 4 Love Strong as Death; 5. The Place of Women in the National Life; 6. The Immediate Problems of the Oriental Women; 7. The Indian Sage.i ; 8. Noblesse Oblige; A study of Indian Caste; 9. The Synthesis of Indian Thought; 10. The Oriental Experience; 11. The Wheel of Birth and Death; 12. The Story of the Great God; Siva or Mahadev; 13. The Gospel of the Blessed One; 14. Islam in India; 15, An Indian Pilgrimage; 16. On the Loom of Time.
THE MYSTICS, ASCETICS AND SAINTS OF INDIA By John Campbell Oman, Author of "Indian Life Religions and Social," etc. Fully illustrated. Medium 8vo., cloth, Rs. 10-8.
This work is in the main a study of Sadhuism. It contains also incidentally some account of the Faquirs, or Ascetics who profess Islam. , A great mass of information, which has hitherto been scattered in a number of books or in learned journals difficult of access is here brought within the reach of every one, and many new and interesting facts which have come within the author's personal experience are added. with the result that a tolerably full account has been presented in this volume of the peculiarities of the leading asceiic seci.", such as the Yogis, Sannyasis, Bairagis, etc.
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