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THE LAND OF THE VEDA.
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Sepoy Rebellion, opened a career for Christians in India | 465, 526 |
———, opening of, at Meerut and Delhi | 228 |
———, position of the Delhi Emperor respecting the | 170 |
———, probable number of English persons killed in the | 260 |
———, promoted by false prophecies and news | 225 |
———, promoted by the criminal classes and disaffected elements | 401 |
———, results of, to Christianity in India | 463 |
———, results of, to the East India Company | 458 |
———, results of, to the Hindoo race | 457 |
———, results of, to the Mohammedan portion of the population | 451 |
———, results of the, to the Sepoy Army | 450 |
———, “secret service” and post-office of, in the person of the Fakirs | 205 |
———, encroachments of English law on peculiar institutions of India a cause of the | 190 |
———, the annexation of Oude a cause of the | 188 |
———, the greased cartridges made the occasion for | 223 |
Sepoys, the native force of the English in India | 72 |
———, blown from English guns—how and why | 313-316 |
———, spirit they generally manifested | 445 |
———, fidelity of some, at Lucknow | 351 |
———, number and description of | 73 |
———, the ruin which they dragged down on themselves and others | 450 |
Shajehanpore, fearful massacre at | 259 |
Shalimar, the gardens of | 115 |
Shaster, the, on a wife's seclusion | 486 |
———, the abominable injunction of, on a wife's subordination | 487 |
Shraad, purpose of | 476 |
———, blowing from guns deemed a preventive of the | 313-816 |
Sibbald, General, undue confidence of | 232 |
Seeta, the rape of | 96 |
Soma-juice, the libations of the ancient Hindoos | 88, 91 |
Suttee, view of a | 375 |
———, abolished by Lord Bentinck | 394 |
———, extent and motives of | 384 |
———, instances of | 387-393 |
———, mode of | 381 |
———, modern Hindooism alone demands | 379 |
———, without Vedic sanction | 378 |
Taj Mahal, a mausoleum | 133 |
———, appearance of, at sunrise and by moonlight | 134 |
Taj Mahal, first view of | 129 |
———, joyful meeting in, with the first Methodist missionaries | 433 |
———, matchless grace and beauty of the | 141 |
———, materials used in construction of | 130 |
———, remarkable effect of music in the | 139 |
———, the architect and cost of the | 148 |
———, to whom erected | 148 |
———, view of, from a distance | 128 |
———, view of, inside the garden | Frontispiece |
———, view of the entrance gate to | 132 |
Takt Taous, or Peacock Throne, of Shah Jehan | 116, 422 |
Theological Seminary of India at Bareilly | 529 |
Thugs, portraits of | 396 |
———, interview with two hundred | 398 |
———, murderers by profession | 399 |
Treta Yug, the | 76 |
Troup, Colonel, warns Dr. Butler to flee | 234 |
———, General, in command of Havelock's brigade | 442 |
Tucker, Judge, heroic death of | 339 |
“Twice born,” import of the phrase | 24 |
Vanaprastha, or hermit life, rules for | 35 |
Vedas, collated and published by foreigners | 41 |
———, licentiousness of the worship inculcated in the | 91-93 |
———, a willful corruption of the, the foundation of Suttee | 378 |
———, the common misapprehension of their character | 92, 93 |
———, deities mentioned in the | 86 |
———, the, do not sanction the usages of modern Hindooism | 85 |
———, the, polytheistic character of | 86 |
———, samples of the | 90, 95 |
———, the, sanction beef eating | 87 |
———, their age, number, and character | 84 |
Wages of a laboring man in India | 506 |
Wellesley, Marquis, makes infanticide a capital crime | 474 |
Wentworth, Rev. Dr., invites Dr. Butler to join him in China | 432 |
Wheeler, General Sir Hugh, fatal mistake of | 295 |
Widow, re-marriage of a, forbidden | 502 |
Widowhood in India | 497-502 |
Willoughhy's gallant defense of the Delhi magazine | 229 |
Woman debased by the Hindoo system | 31 |
——— forbidden by law to eat with her husband | 492 |
———, last hours of a, in India | 504 |
——— of India in full dress, portrait of a | 40 |