INDEX

denied in New York, 163 ; in
Bengal, 165-166; in Bombay,
170-171; in Madras, 166-168 ;
in United Provinces, 168-169 ;
education for, 165, 169, 170-
175 ; use of wells, 165, 167,
169 ; conditions of, 165-169 ;
Indian Statutory Commission
and, 164-165 ; Sir Manmohan-
das Ramji and, 171; Bombay
Stock Exchange and, 171;
Mr. Arthur Moore and, 173 ;
Mr. N. M. Joshi and, 174-175 ;
number of children of school
age, 175 ; Hindus would rid
their country of, 176 ; Arya
Samaj and, 176; Brahmo
Sarnaj and, 176-177 ; Wardha
temple opened to, 177; puri-
fication of, 177 ; All-India De-
pressed Class Conference, 177;
Brahman murdered for sym-
pathy with, 178-179

Van Tyne, Professor Claude, de-
scribes Bombay riots (1921),
39-40

Van Doren, Alice B., signs letter
of protest against Mother India,
121, 135

Venkatasubba Rao, Justice, on
child marriage, 97

Victoria School for Girls, Lahore,
136

Vidhva Vivaha Sahayak Sabha,
The, work for widows, 94

Village Uplift in India, by F. L.
Brayne, 209-211

Villages, number of, 85 ; fodder
in, 126-129 J wrestling matches
m, 130; sports in, 130-131;
Untouchables in, 165-169;
tanks m, 165 ; uplift of, 209-
211

Villard, Oswald Garrison, on his
indebtedness to Katherine
Mayo, 253 ; on her judgment,

Wales, Prince of, popular ovation

in Bombay, 26-30, 39, 43
Walker, Major, 108
Wardha, Hindu temple opened

to Untouchables, 177
Webster's Dictionary, on age of

puberty, 68 *

Wells, use of by Untouchables,

165, 167, 169
Western medicine vs. Ayurvedic

medicine, 26,31-34,195-196
White, Horace, editor of Chicago
Tribune, and N. Y. Evening
Post, 254 ; on Katherine Mayo,
254

Whitehead, Rt. Rev. Henry, let-
ter to Miss Mayo, 148-150 ; on
-prostitutes, 149-150, 160
Widow-remarriage, 120; Mrs,
Naidu on, 48 ; restriction on,
94; Vidhva Vivaha Sahayak
Sabha and, 94 ; Census on, 94;
The Widow Remarriage Act of
1856, 94, 109-110; the Hon.
Mr. J. P. Grant on, no-xx'x ;
Hindu scriptures on, no
Widowhood, 94*104, 105, 106-
107, 109-111 ; Gandhi on, 25 j
enforced, 141, 209, 214
Widows : statistics, 60, 94, 109-
110; reason for large number
of, 94 ; Pandita Rarnabai and,
95 ; child widowhood, 94, ipo;
misery of, 95 ; widow-burning,
105-107,120 ; Hindu rules for,
no ; licentious life of, -fig
Wilkinson, Miss Ellen C., alleged
Government responsibility for
Mother India, 227
Willmore, Ida Mary, letter to

Pioneer Mail, 215-217
Wives, sent by force to husbands,

215-219
Woman Awakened, by G. Sumati

Bai, 66, 72, 91

Women : position of, 16 ; literacy
of, 50 ; treatment of, 93 ; traffic
in, 102,160 ; among backward

298