The Web of Indian Life (Classic Reprint)

Hindu life in the city of Calcutta. I came when the great autumn feast of theM other 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 cabhorses were up to their girths in water hour after hour. What a beautiful old world it was in which I spent those months! It moved slowly, to a different rhythm from anything that one had known. It was a world in which a great thought or intense emotion was held as the true achievement, distinguishing the day as no deed could. It was a world in which men in loin-cloths, seated on door-sills in dusty lanes, said things aboutS hakespeare andS helley that some of us would go far to hear.
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