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From Adam's peak to Elephanta: sketches in Ceylon and India / by Edward Carpenter.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carpenter, Edward, 1844-1929.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sri Lanka--Description and travel.
- Sri Lanka.
- India--Description and travel.
- India.
- India--Social life and customs.
- Manners and customs.
- India--Religion.
- Religion.
- Music--India--History and criticism.
- Music.
- Hindu music.
- Genre:
- Pictorial cloth bindings (Binding) -- 1892.
- Physical Description:
- xvi pages, 1 leaf, 5-363 pages : frontispiece, illustrations (including portrait) ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : S. Sonnenschein & co.; New York : MacMillan & co., 1892.
- Contents:
- Ceylon.
- A visit to a gñáni.
- India.
- The old order and the new influences.
- Colombo
- Kandy and peasant life
- Kurunegala
- Adam's peak and the black river
- British law-courts and Buddhist Temples
- Anuradhapura: A ruined city of the jungle
- A night-festival in a Hindu temple
- A visit to Gnani
- Consciousness without thought
- Methods of attainment
- Traditions of the ancient wisdom-religion
- The south indian temples
- Madras and calcutta
- Benares
- The Anglo-Indian and the oyster
- Delhi and Agra
- Bombay
- The old order: Caste and Communism
- The new influences: Western science and commercialism.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Bound in dark blue cloth with a gold temple and gold floral border on the front cover.
- Athenaeum copy: Livezey Fund bookplate.
- OCLC:
- 4700149
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