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Woman, training of a youthful Hindoo 482
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the M. E. Church 521
———, munificent liberality to the, by the Nawab of Rampore 525
Women of India doomed by modern Hindooism to a life of ignorance 42
——— in India at present unable to create a true home 57
——— in India, higher social position of, in the Vedic age 88
——— in India never dance unless they are prostitutes 46
———, courtship of, unknown in India 497
———, statistics of education of 42
———, widowhood of, in India 497-502
Women, wrongs of, legalized in India 469
Woodside, Rev. J. S., interview of, with the Emperor of Delhi 424
 
Yogee,” meaning of the word 203
Yogees, or silent saints of India, portraits of 200
———, singular rules of moral perfection for, from the Bhagvat Geeta 201, 202
———, superstitious veneration for 203
 
Zeenat Mahal, last Empress of Delhi, portrait of 111
Zenana, the term defined 479
Zenana Schools, number of pupils in 42