The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-22
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ceedingly few British subjects vino I'M
reservedly criticises the results of English
misrule in India. Not the least interest
! ing chapters of his new volume OF Indian
sketches will be those devoted to the
/ excoriation of the governments methods
/ in her greatest provinces. Speaking yes
terday of the loyalty of the natives, Mr..
| Waraker said that there were a great
many opportunities for the conquerors of
! India to make many friends among the
! Hindoo and Mohammedan subjects. 1t
was in the heavily populated Hindoo sec
| tons where he found the most hatred for
ana especially the Sikh were the most
| loyal in feeling, the latter proving be-
yond doubt their friendship for the mother
country from the very fact that they
form the fighting material OF British
India.
The natives themselves complain in all
seoons OF - the "a h e SS home charges
has TO be paid in gold a feature that is the
real cause of depression in India of silver,
which metal is boarded by the peasantry
in the form of numerous bracelets. arm
lets and anklets of bangles. This fail
OF silver. OF course, has seriously af-
fected the cultivators in Mofussie, that
division OF India where wheat and corn
is grown. Another cause of the present
aggravated conditions of poverty is that
the cultivators have all borrowed a few
rupees from the rnoney lending class
known as the bunyar and frequently
failing 70 pay the heavy interest exacted
by these native money lenders, are evicted
from their lands by the English courts
when the bunyar steps in This system
has caused q great deal Of. discomfort and
all of the blame is naturally cast on the
English government, Formerly and even
interest on money is limited to 6-per cent
but this condition does not fall in with
English idea OF free trade. and is. there
fore, not favored.
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Some people openly declared to Mr..
Waraker that If this system of eviction
was continued the only possible way of
Keeping the bnnyar in possession of his
ill-gotten lands. will be through the use
of English bayonets, a work that the
traveller considers would be exceedingly
distasteful to the English army.
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When Mr. Waraker left India. about
the end of March. there were then 12OO0-
600 of native subjects on the relief list of
those who are supported by the govern
ment. He wrote to a number of English
papers advocating that the money sub
scribed by the English people for the re-
lief work be transmitted IN the form of
corn rather than in coin, because the
effect OF sending money was TO induce
the bunyar to also speculate in cora,
thereby holding back supplies which are
really the most need in the country.
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Abiding to social phases found in his
intercourse with the highest Brahmins in
ruling principle CT their daily life was
purity IN everything and therefore fire.
quent ablution was one of the main rites
in addition TO the worship of ancestry.
Many OF the Hindoo ladies do the cook
ing for their husbands and the strictest
Hindoos actually prepare their own food,
SO that no other human hands may touch
what constitutes their daily fare.
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Hindoo lady cannot understand how
any modest white woman. who respects
herself. can dance. One day Mr. Wara-
ker. while conversing with a high caste
Brahmr matron, asked her if she would
accompany him to d ball TO be given at
the vtceroy's palace in Calcutta. She
turned abruptly upon him and requested
him to refrain from insulting her Quickly
extricatipe himself from the dilemma OF
the moment, the English visitor said that
he had forgotten that the Hindoo women
abhorred dancing.
Following up the subject she said that
If a Hindoo gentleman. she would not
dream OF marrying a woman who danced.
This lady was highly educated woman.
She spoke English, French. German and
Italian and played the piano and native
zytha, besides singing in the languages
enumerated and in addition the Bengal
and Sanscrit
in the highest social circles of the occi-
dental world: yet she frankly admitted
that this repugnance was due to the
Nautch girls. all of whom were women of
much in demand at evening entertain
ments given by the rajahs. They cost
fl00 for a single night and the amusement
is always an expensive one for the reason
that none OF these performances can be
given with less than three girls and at
least two men to play the zytha-
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Mr. Waraker quoted from the Shastra
the prayer which Brahmins say is nearer
the Lords prayer than any invocation in
the Christian litany.
1t proceeds: 20 Sun. source of all
knowledge, grant us knowledge that we
may do no wrong, think no wrong and
speak no wrong. 1t corresponds with
the great Christian prayer in so far as
it asks knowledge instead of temporal
good.