MODERN INDIA

BY WILLIAM ELEROY CURTIS

Author of "The Turk and His Lost Provinces," "To-day in Syria and Palestine," "Egypt, Burma and British Malaysia," etc.

To LADY CURZON
An ideal american woman

This volume contains a series of letters written for The Chicago Record-Herald during the winter of 1903-04, and are published in permanent form through the courtesy of Mr. Frank B. Noyes, Editor and publisher of that paper.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

I.[The Eye of India]
II.[The City of Bombay]
III.[Servants, Hotels, and Cave Temples]
IV.[The Empire of India]
V.[Two Hindu Weddings]
VI.[The Religions of India]
VII.[How India Is Governed]
VIII.[The Railways of India]
IX.[The City of Ahmedabad]
X.[Jeypore and its Maharaja]
XI.[About Snakes and Tigers]
XII.[The Rajputs and Their Country]
XIII.[The Ancient Mogul Empire]
XIV.[The Architecture of the Moguls]
XV.[The Most Beautiful of Buildings]
XVI.[The Quaint Old City of Delhi]
XVII.[The Temples and Tombs at Delhi]
XVIII.[Thugs, Fakirs and Nautch Dancers]
XIX.[Simla and the Punjab]
XX.[Famines and Their Antidotes]
XXI.[The Frontier Question]
XXII.[The Army in India]
XXIII.[Muttra, Lucknow and Cawnpore]
XXIV.[Caste and the Women of India]
XXV.[Education in India]
XXVI.[The Himalyas and the Invasion of Thibet]
XXVII.[Benares, the Sacred City]
XXVIII.[American Missions in India]
XXIX.[Cotton, Tea and Opium]
XXX.[Calcutta, the Capital of India]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

MODERN INDIA