Lectures on India: also, descriptions of remarkable customs and personages in other pagan and Mohammedan countries
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Lectures on India: also, descriptions of remarkable customs and personages in other pagan and Mohammedan countries
- Publication date
- 1848
- Publisher
- Boston, Published by C. Wright
- Collection
- library_of_congress; americana
- Contributor
- The Library of Congress
- Language
- English
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Costumes and remarkable personages in India.--Lectures on India. Lecture I.-- Lectures on India. Lecture II.--A lecture on the condition of women in pagan and Mohammedan countries.--Curiosities and remarkable customs in pagan Mohammedan countries.--Description of the habits and superstitions of the Thugs; a sect who profess to be divinely authorized to plunder and murder.--Specimens of the Shasters, or sacred books of the Brahmins [with A description of the Shasters, by J. J. Weitbrecht].--Description of two pagan festivals, celebrated annually in Calcutta, at an expense of three millions of dollars, by Alexander Duff.--Superstitions of the Ashantees, especially those which lead them to sacrifice, on certain occasions, thousands of human victims
Costumes and remarkable personages in India.--Lectures on India. Lecture I.-- Lectures on India. Lecture II.--A lecture on the condition of women in pagan and Mohammedan countries.--Curiosities and remarkable customs in pagan Mohammedan countries.--Description of the habits and superstitions of the Thugs; a sect who profess to be divinely authorized to plunder and murder.--Specimens of the Shasters, or sacred books of the Brahmins [with A description of the Shasters, by J. J. Weitbrecht].--Description of two pagan festivals, celebrated annually in Calcutta, at an expense of three millions of dollars, by Alexander Duff.--Superstitions of the Ashantees, especially those which lead them to sacrifice, on certain occasions, thousands of human victims
- Addeddate
- 2010-05-21 14:52:37
- Associated-names
- Weitbrecht, John James; Duff, Alexander, 1806-1878
- Call number
- 5937155
- Camera
- Canon 5D
- External-identifier
- urn:oclc:record:556375685
- Foldoutcount
- 0
- Identifier
- lecturesonindiaa01wrig
- Identifier-ark
- ark:/13960/t6d22mn31
- Identifier-bib
- 00102570637
- Lccn
- 30010538
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- 87
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- 1.0.3
- Pages
- 304
- Possible copyright status
- The Library of Congress is unaware of any copyright restrictions for this item.
- Ppi
- 400
- Scandate
- 20100607145955
- Scanner
- scribe4.capitolhill.archive.org
- Scanningcenter
- capitolhill
- Worldcat (source edition)
- 4203477
- Full catalog record
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