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ADAM'S PEAKTO

Elephanta

SKETCHES IN CEYLON AND INDIA.

WORKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR.ENGLAND'S IDEAL,Social Subjects.

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ElephantaSKETCHES IN CEYLON AND INDIA

Edward Carpenter.

London:

SWAN SONNENSCHEIN &CO.1892.

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PREFACE

If

asked to write a book about his

own country andas hopeless

people a

man might

well give

up the task

yet to do the same about a distant land in which he has

only spent a few months

is

a thing which the averageI

traveler quite cheerfully undertakes.

suppose

this

may

be looked upon as another illustration of the great fact that the less one knows of a matter the easier it is to writeor talk aboutit.

But there

is,

certain merit of their

own

in first

sometimes impressions andit

is

said,I

a

;

trust

that this

there are

may appear in the present case. many things that are missedsome things that stand outI

Certainly thoughin a first glance

there arelater.

clearer then than

In the following pages

have tried to keep as

far as

possible to the relation of things actually seen and heard,

and notis

to be betrayed into doubtful generalisations.in the case of a

It

so easy

land like India, which

is

as large

as

Europe (without Russia) and

at least as multifarious

in its peoples, languages, creeds, customs,

and manners,is

to

make

the serious mistake of supposing that what

true

of one locality necessarily applies to the whole vast demesne, that I must specially warn the reader not only against falling into this error himself, but against the possibility of my having fallen into it in places.

Asis

far as actualI

concerned

experience of life in Ceylon and India have perhaps been fortunate not only in;

being introduced (through the kindness of local friends)into circles of traditional teaching which are often closed

against the English, and in so getting to

know something