India and the Indians

by Edward Fenton Elwin

• Kala, village of, [171]
• Kathiawar, [175]
• Khandala, [320]
• Kim's talk, [143]
• King, H.M. the, [153], [162]
• Kipling, Rudyard, [143], [175]
• Kite, bird, [187]
• Kites, [133]
• Krait, snake, [310]

• Labour, employers of, [24];
  • dignity of, [129]
• Land, buying, [263]
• Landmark, neighbour's, [253]
• Language, [306]
• Law-courts, [119], [212]
• "Lawrence," the, school, [162]
• Lights, incandescent, [139], [272]
• Lion, [175]
• Litigation, [224]
• Locusts, [183]
• Low castes, [85], [278]

• Magisterial inquiry, [67]
• Mahars, low-caste, [70], [71], [214];
  • boys, [72]
• Mantis, [195]
• Manure, [329]; farmers and, [331]
• Map, [222]
• Marbles, [131]
• Marriage, [151];
  • of widows, [206], [209]
• Meals, [55], [107], [207], [236];
  • English and Indian, [107], [109], [238]
• Medicine-men, [315]
• Middleton, Bp., [291]
• Military display, [153], [154]
• Mills, grinding, [98], [105]
• Mineral waters, [139]
• Misconceptions about India, [1], [272], [273], [288]
• Mission work, [89];
  • heads of, [94], [96]
• Mohammedans, [302];
  • ascetics, [196];
  • conception of heaven, [303];
  • egg-merchant, [198], [200];
  • and marriage, [302], [304];
  • merchants, [303];
  • saints, [75]
• Money, [225]
• Mongoose, [178]
• Monkeys, [177]
• Monsoon, [273-5]
• Moral maxims, [166];
  • instruction, [286]
• Mosquitoes, [193];
  • net for, [193]
• Mother, respect for, [13], [16];
  • Swithun's, [15]
• Mother-in-law, [210], [211]
• Motor cars, [80], [181];
  • bullocks and, [326]
• Music, [81], [98], [100], [101];
  • Sir G. Clarke on, [103], [104]
• Musical instruments, [101]

• Naidu, Mrs Sarojini, [111];
  • her portrait, [115]
• National characteristics, [141]
• Nature, illustrations from, [164];
  • Indian view of, [17];
  • the world of, [182]
• Nautch, dance, [76], [79]
• Neatness, lack of, [90], [91]
• Night, alarms, [309], [313];
  • thieves, [251];
  • travelling by, [99];
  • watchmen, [312]

• Obedience, Indian, [25]
• Obstinacy, [159]
• Oman, Mr. J. C., [166]

• Pageants, [151]
• Painting, mural, [64]
• Palaces, [60]
• Palanquin bearers, [100]
• Panchayat, committee of five, [66];
  • Christian, [68]
• Pan supari, leaf and betel nut, [75], [80];
  • party, [76]
• Panther, [172]
• Paper, daily, [300];
  • vernacular, [301]
• Parsees, [48], [65], [125], [186], [271]
• Patel, headman, [71], [213], [214], [316];
  • his gift, [264]
• Patience, [92]
• Payments, how made, [26]
• Persian visitors, [126]
• Philosophy, Hindu, [111]
• Pictures, from England, [63];
  • by Indian artists, [63]
• Pigs, wild, [178]
• Plague Refuge Camp, [281]
• Pleaders, [225]
• Plural, use of, [306]
• Poetry, [112]
• Police, [213];
  • umbrellas for, [279]
• Political unrest, [131], [280]
• Poona City, [77], [164], [281];
  • ancient houses in, [60], [61];
  • modern houses in, [60], [61], [257]
• Post, cards, [34];
  • offices, [33];
  • postman, [38];
  • post-runners, [32]
• Postal privileges, [36];
  • service, [32];
  • train-sorters, [35]
  • Potatoes, [335]
• Potter, [271]
• Poverty, [54], [108], [225]
• Prayer, Hindu, [30], [121]
• Prayer Book valued, [144]
• Printing, [149]
• Processions, [151];
  • funeral, [152];
  • religious, [154]
• Projects, unfinished, [158], [256];
  • imaginary, [257]
• Property, [221]
• Proverbial sayings, [270]
• Psalm cl., [156]
• Punishment, [161], [213]
• Purdah women, [81]
• Purity, [70]
• Pusa College, [328]

• Religion, [117];
  • true, [240]
• Religious controversy, [164];
  • phases, [124]
• Repartee, [129]
• Rest-house, [99]
• Rewards, government, [172]
• Rivers, [77], [183], [319]
• Robbery, by train-sorters, [35];
  • in temples, [118]
• Roman Catholics, [87], [124], [290]
• Rudeness, to employers, [24], [25];
  • to Indians, [228]

• Sacred books, Hindu, [3]
• Salvation Army, [290]
• Sanskrit, [344]
• Scenery, oblivious to, [17]
• Schoolboys, [219];
  • Hindu, [283], [340]
• Scorpions, [191]
• Sects, [87], [88]
• Servants, [295], [297];
  • punctuality, [52];
  • Christian, [242], [244], [269];
  • heathen, [243];
  • of Europeans, [72], [237], [238], [241]
• Shiggram, carriage, [299]
• Shinde, pigtail, [284], [339]
• Shoes, [299]
• Shops, [300]
• Sikhs, [343]
• Singing, [81], [98], [99], [100], [103], [140]
• Slang, [147]
• Smell of India, [305]
• Snakes, [293], [309], [312]
• Socks, [299]
• Soldiers, [100]
• Son, eldest, [332]
• Sparrows, [186]
• Spiders, [192]
• Spirit, Holy, [97]
• Squirrel, [176]
• State, native, [119]
• Station-masters, Indian, [49]
• Sugar cane, [331];
  • parties, [332];
  • juice, [333]
• Sun, [277];
  • caution about, [290]
• Survey Department, [222]
• Swallows, [186]
• Swearing, [125], [147]
• Swithun's mother, [15]
• Symons, Mr Arthur, [111]

• Telegrams, [37];
  • abuse of, [37]
• Temples, Hindu, [122];
  • behaviour in, [117]
• Thackeray, Mr., [195]
• Thieving, [218], [250]
• Tigers, [170];
  • den, [173];
  • tigress, [173]
• Tilak, Mr., [120], [281]
• Tips, [269]
• Titles, [74]
• Tomb, Mohammedan, [79], [196]
• Tom Tiddler's ground, [136]
• Toothbrush, [235]
• Tops, [132]
• Torture, [213], [217], [218]
• Trades, [270];
  • ancestral, [323]
• "Traveller's tale," [182]
• Tulsi plant, [58], [208]
• Tunes, [103];
  • Indian, for hymns, [104]
• Turban, [44], [284], [343]

• Umbrellas, [278]
• Unfinished projects, [158], [256], [258], [260]
• Unpunctuality, [48];
  • instance of, [49];
  • on the railway, [48], [49];
  • at meals, [52], [53];
  • incurable, [50], [51];
  • amongst Christians, [51], [92], [93], [94];
  • illustration from parables, [52]
• Unrest, political, [278], [280]