(London: Seely and Son, 1830), iii; James Peggs, The Suttees' Cry to Britain; Containing Extracts from Essays Published in India and Parliamentary Papers on the Burning of
Hindoo Widows (London: Seely and Son, 1827).
On the death of the late Maharajah, his widows, in the undoubted exercise of their rights, according to
Hindoo law, proceeded to nominate his infant successor to the vacant gadee, upon which British troops marched into Nagpore, threw the Ministers and the relatives of the late Sovereign into the common gaol, swept away the private property of the widows to the extent of two millions and a half, filled the palace of these illustrious ladies with Sepoys, under the command of a British officer, and deprived them of the means of even exercising the rights of their religion until they had extorted from them a release of their legal rights.
That the natives and others call it also Hindee, Indian, from Hind, the ancient appellation of India, cannot be denied; but as this is apt to be confounded with Hinduwee, Hindooee, Hindvee, the derivative form from
Hindoo, I adhere to my original opinion, that we should invariably discard all other denominations of the popular speech of this country, including the unmeaning word Moors, and substitute for them Hindoostanee, whether the people here constantly do so or not: as they can hardly discriminate sufficiently, to observe the use and propriety of such restrictions, even when pointed out to them.
A description of the semi-buoyant eggs and early developmental stages of the goldeye,
Hindoo alosoides (Rafinesque).
In her Translation of the Letters of a
Hindoo Rajah (1796), the Rajah, after reading the "authentic memoirs" of a nobleman, comes to the conclusion that marriage in Europe is constructed "from the most pure and disinterested motives" ([1796] 1999, 191) and that therefore it is only the obstinacy and folly of women that "alone can possibly prevent their advancement to the very summit of felicity!" (192) The Rajah adds that there is a very peculiar and extraordinary punishment reserved for those females who choose to remain single:
In the early 1850s in the midst of a debate about the extension of the EIC charter, the paper quoted at length an 1838 report from Charles Trevalyan that argued, "[I]n the
Hindoo system, history is made up of fables ...
In 1891 he leaves America to further his study at the Sorbonne (the Practical School of High Studies, Paris), where he takes on courses on Sanskrit, Pali and
Hindoo philosophy (including buddhism).
(24) "
Hindoo" and "Mohammedan" architectural motifs, such as vaulted roofs, "onion" domes and "Moorish" windows became fashionable throughout Europe.
We were reading, the other day, in a book of travels in Asia, that a
Hindoo runner will run not only all day long, but day after day, by the side of a European traveling on horseback--enduring the travel much better than the horse, or the rider of the horse.
(3) Hegel goes further: "Deceit and cunning are the fundamental characteristics of the
Hindoo. Cheating, stealing, robbing, murdering are with him habitual ...
