Lectures on India
By: by Caleb Wright. [Illustrated by 30 elegant engravings] ...
Publisher: The author
Published: 1848
Place of publication: Troy, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
Subjects: Religion; Social life and customs; Description and travel
Notes: [Two lectures, with separate t.p.]
Table of contents: title: Lectures on India. Lecture I; title: Lectures on India. Lecture II; title: Lecture [on the] condition of women in pagan and Mohammedan countries; title: A brief description of two of the principal Hindu festivals [Durga and Kali]; title: A description of the habits and superstitions of the Thugs: a sect who profess to be divinely authorized to obtain their livelihood by a systematic course of plunder and murder.