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Forgotten Books The Web of Indian Life (Classic Reprint) by Sister Nivedita
Excerpt from The Web of Indian Life A house of my own in which to eat sleep and conduct a girls school and full welcome accorded at any hour of day or night that I might choose to invade the privacy of a group of women friends hard by these were the conditions under which I made my entrance into Hindu life in the city of Calcutta. I came when the great autumn feast of the Mother was past I was there at the ending of the winter when plague broke out in our midst and the streets at night were thronged with seething multitudes who sang strange litanies and went half mad with religious excitement; I remained through the terrific heat when activity became a burden and only ones Hindu friends understood how to live; I left my home for a time when the tropical rains had begun and in the adjoining roads the cab horses were up to their girths in water hour after hour. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses stateoftheart technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.show more