# Winter India

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The author pretends to no sympathy with the people whom she is observing: "All these diverse races and peoples are picturesque to look upon, with their graceful draperies of brilliant colors and the myriad forms of turbans; but they are not an attractive, a winning, and sympathetic, or a lovable people. They are as antipathetic and devoid of charm as the Chinese, as callous, as deficient in sympathy and the sense of pity as those next neighbors of theirs in Asia, and as impossible for the Occidental to fathom or comprehend,—an irresistible, inexplicable, unintelligible repulsion controlling one." —From the review in the Atlantic Monthly July 1903
Winter India
THE SACRED BO-TREE AND THE DIAMOND THRONE, BUDDHA-GAYA.
THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE AND THE VERANDA OF KNOWLEDGE.
Winter India
By
Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore
Author of "Jinrikisha Days in Japan," "Java: The Garden of the East," and "China: The Long-Lived Empire"
New York
The Century Co.
1903
Copyright, 1903, by
The Century Co.
Published March, 1903
THE DE VINNE PRESS
TO
CAROLINE TOUSEY BURKHAM
THE FRIEND OF
AN INDIAN WINTER
CONTENTS
* Introduction
* chapterpage
* IOn India's Coral Strand3
* IITrichinopoli and Tanjore21
* IIIWith Chidambram's Brahmans34
* IVFor the Honor and Glory of Shiva51
* VMadras and the Seven Pagodas64
* VIMadras and Calcutta80
* VIICalcutta in Christmas Week89
* VIIIThe Greatest Thing in the World105
* IXMahabodhi, the Place of Great Intelligence116
* XThe Sacred Bo-tree133
* XIThe Greatest Sight in the World149
* XIIBenares165
* XIIILucknow177
* XIVAgra185
* XVAkbar, the Greatest Mogul of Them All202
* XVIDelhi213
* XVIIOld Delhi227
* XVIIILahore239
* XIXThe End of the Indian Empire256
* XXThrough Khyber Pass with the Caravans276
* XXIAmritsar298
* XXIISimla312
* XXIIIAlwar323
* XXIVGwalior335
* XXVJeypore344
* XXVIMount Abu and Ahmedabad357
* XXVIIThe Caves of Ellora and Karli369
* XXVIIIBombay383
* Index393
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
* The Sacred Bo-tree and the Diamond Throne, Buddha-GayaFrontispiece.
* PAGE
* Tamil Children5
* The Great Gopura, Madura Temple13
* Detail of Gopura, Madura Temple19
* Indian Lotas27
* Gopura and Tank, Chidambram Temple43
* Pattu Thacheadar57
* Monolithic Temples at Mahabalipur67
* The Village Street77
* The Ruins and Pagodas of Pagan91
* From photograph by Bourne & Shepard.
* The Fort at Mandalay91
* Vases from the Sakya Stupa at Piprawah121
* The Sarcophagus in the Cave121
* The Ekka124
* The Great Temple at Buddha-Gaya and the Sacred Bo-tree127
* Asoka's Rail, Buddha-Gaya143
* The "Women's Ghat, Benares151
* The Burning-Ghat, Benares159
* Fakirs at Benares169
* On the Ganges173
* The Taj Mahal187
* Private Audience-Hall and Jasmine Tower in Agra Palace. Taj Mahal in Distance197
* Mausoleum of Selim Chisti, Fatehpur Sikri207
* Kutab minar219
* Detail of Kutab minar231
* Street Dancers, Delhi237
* The Roofs and Balconies of Lahore245
* School-boys in the Vazir Khan Mosque, Lahore251
* Afghan Falconer, Peshawar251
* The Mad Molla, Peshawar269
* Caravans in the Khyber Pass287
* The Golden Temple, Amritsar301
* Window at Gwalior307
* The Hall of Audience, Jeypore315
* The Old City of Amber, from the Top of the Deserted Palace325
* The Deserted Palace, from the Lake, Amber331
* The Hall of Mirrors337
* Interior of Jain Temple, Mount Abu349
* Ceiling of Jain Temple, Mount Abu359
* Tracery Window, Ahmedabad365
* Rock-cut Temple at Ellora371
* The Great Cave-temple, Karli379
* "Please Buy My Niklass"387
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