Lectures on India
Subtitle: also, descriptions of remarkable customs and personages in other pagan and Mohammedan countries.
Contributors: Weitbrecht, John James.; Duff, Alexander, 1806-1878.
Publisher: Published by C. Wright
Published: 1848
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Subjects: India -- Social life and customs; India -- Description and travel; India -- Religion
Notes: Each volume has special t.p.
Table of contents: title: Costumes and remarkable personages in India.; title: Lectures on India. Lecture I.; title: Lectures on India.  Lecture II.; title: A lecture on the condition of women in pagan and Mohammedan countries.; title: Curiosities and remarkable customs in pagan Mohammedan countries.; title: Description of the habits and superstitions of the Thugs; a sect who profess to be divinely authorized to plunder and murder.; title: Specimens of the Shasters, or sacred books of the Brahmins [with A description of the  Shasters, by J. J. Weitbrecht].; title: Description of two pagan festivals, celebrated annually in Calcutta, at an expense of three millions of dollars, by Alexander Duff.; title: Superstitions of the Ashantees, especially those which lead them to sacrifice, on certain occasions, thousands of human victims.