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- Title
- Hindu Manners, Customs and Ceremonies: The Classic First-Hand Account of India in the Early Nineteenth Century
- Author
- Dubois, Abbé J.A.
- Publisher
- Dover Publications
- Publication year
- 2002
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0486421155
- ISBN 13
- 9780486421155
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Item weight
- 27 ounces
- Dimensions
- 5x1x8
Based on an 1815 manuscript by a French missionary, this comprehensive work offers a unique panorama of early-19th-century Indian life. Caste system, ceremonial procedures, rules and etiquette, marriage, fasting, widowhood, funerary rites, literature, religion, much more. Index. 6 Appendices.
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Synopsis
Jean Antoine Dubois (1765-1848) spent three decades as a missionary in India, and recorded his observations as Moeurs, institutions et cTrTmonies des peuples de l'Inde in 1806. His 1815 revision was translated into English in 1897, which was in turn revised in 1905 and published by Clarendon Press. There is no bibliography. Cited in Books for Colle
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