The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1883-06-03

what an East Indian has 10 asy Absaf Dsil
lsh Rule. 0asASS RAlIassa, sad N orals

N n
nagro nj a noss,no OH noo hu, IN o,osar ,rsn..
tion n would ho soan ,hot no be,onood 30 : 70,
different race. While not as black by any
than the Monaghan. while his features are I'M
mistakaDly Caucasian.
Il am. believe" said he to the writer. "the
on,v ,o,iyo u,raao A.. ,h,s ,o,,,.. =. -.
Y I'LL r".se nlhuoo IN .n's county AT present
hear there Is young married East Indian
dos,.ns 20 s,,d, a,aina si,h %n'. =. s ,,'e
| practice OF tho profession In India. am q
medical student myself. I had two years OF
| o,udy In Cnn,ona No., oo,,,onI iii -,
s.uuy III r'hs'ahu anu Seoti"hu' snail prop-
ably remain In this country a year. and then
return to Calcutta to practise my profession.
-. = 80. :, Al, ,..-,. =,
u',, srauuu'e Vi 'he uhiNcfsi'' Vi that Guy.
" How do the people OF India regard their
British rulers ?" asked the writer.
:" WIZ, ,.... :, , ,, N, .r,,
WIN detestation. answered Mr. hoy. me
feeling is universal that some time or other
the English must leave the East Indian penin.
49,, MI .aa. WV 10. i""uu run, PENN
s.laI. Inc next popular outbreak VIII DO no
abortive Sepoy rebellion like the last but an
uprisinp NJ tbe entire IIindoo ponulntion"
:. vi W. whn' grievances 40 you complain
Mr. Row ..Of ,be GRO ooo ooO roisod nnnuoiI,,
NV ,ayat,or ras ooo ocoNnearlv t,vn. th;rSs -,
the whole SUMS used up In salaries by the
military and civil services OF Great Britain in
Ill MI. 80. so ,e,.,, '"' III
port our opprcssors while only little over
f20 900 900 Is spent for the Hindoos."
,, we cannot believe" said Mr.. Roy that
mere handful of foreigners. Remember that
over the whole peninsula for less than cen
fury. We were conquered because, divided i;
S% we ".sd in S'Y Ss1 5kS Of
Intelligent and our learned class equal to AM
in the world"
You say you are united" said tho writer.
How about the Mohummedans?
~, There are about 45.OOo,o0O OF them. said
hcr rIY St 'asy ARE IN nearly n I'll. ae9rd YIN
British rule. You SEQ there are no careers open
to our ambitious young men. The English
tho high military stations, and does not toler-
ate the iiindoo in the civil service or on the
have become SO eminent SO greatly superior to
the imported lawyers that they have been
allowed to III minor judicial Offices; but prac-
Tic lily the Judges OF thu higher courts are all
foreigners. Just think of nation of $50. 900 QUO
people. to whom all the honorable careers in
sions, but the great mass Of our people , arc
Our fow rich people IRE owners Of land" '0'
Mohammedan Hlndoos ilolaters. as We have
been given 70 undcrstand?,'
~, Max Muller answers that question. The
lieve in ono God but say he reveals himself to
man under different asDpcts. He il thu cra-
ator. the Destroyer and SO on and the priests
represent him to us under visible forms, cor.
responding to the various attributes Of the
Great Being. 1t would surprise many Sc. scaled
Liberals in this country TO learn how MANY
iiindoos are what i here known as acuos-
mes oaT eSn'as. Yin English S eyi s has
tonai faith When asked his creed. the eim.
Gated lIindoo will say, i don't know; la am min in
In this country and England II is regarded as
a speculative faith whereas it is tho orsaniz,.,
19n OF Sds s@sn All pnd n@ 8, life Bah
fined to- renindn its disepi.s OF their rs ey cpW
must bnthe WHAT th.y snl POW "at oioh they
deed. no, creed ''"' '''''''N my '"'"'e''e
iind said Mr.. Roy. E" n great deal OF mis-
conception about cnstes. We Justify il on the
ground that IL econon,iz,s socini forces In
Your comnatitive d"m"rrntic svstan, vo,, ,n.
sembe q mass q worms saurmine upon dirt
Hjndoo Eeeps rIrht nonr in the cas. in wbin, n
h he was sL born Hs knows nothing Of rgh!s;
communities; but duty and self sacrifice are are
inculcated from the cradle to the grave. The
think it a hardship il they Cannot tI become come
ARA Bsah mir s y 9, amount friction is saved
him as It is In India india '' '' Is "afN'a ou''or
How about the Suffice. or widow burning.
The Christian missionaries have created n
false impression with regard to those matters.
1t is believed the Suffice was n universal prac.
tice. and that 1t is an ancient Hindoo custom.
whereas it was never heard OF until late in the
eleventh century and has been confined to s,' a
very small portion of the Hndoo peninsula.
what is known as Rajpootana. Its origin is
thus explained by our people: When the Mo-
hammedans entered Hindostan they were OPP
posed by u race which had n chivalrous regard
for women. The Turcomans, who were spread
ing the Mohammedan fai n, had small respect
for female chastity and when the Indian
princes were conquered they. imrlored their
women to kill themselves rather than submit
to outraGe This was the origin OF the Suffice.
known in all our previous history When we
lost our national freedom, our organized priest
hoods lost the respect of the common peopie
and we're unable to cope with the ianaticisms;
which showed themselves In periods Of great
national distress. Hence the Juggernaut, The
Hndoo religion is no more to be charged with
the excuses Of these fanatics than are the
Protestant churches for the Anabaptists or
the vagaries OF the Salvation ArIny"
What success have Christian missionaries
had in Hfndostan ?'
moro nnu,uiui WIN Tue neip OF EhHiisn liter
sionArieS have succeeded in unsettlinv the an
Tad nua ila