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CHAPTER XXI.
Nimtoolaghat—Cremation in India—Parsee Funeral Rites.
India is the only country in the world where the civilization
of the East and that of the West are found side by side with
equal rights and equal chances of a free and full
development. For, although the English have conquered, and
at present rule the country, they have respected the peculiar
customs and manners of the Hindoos, and guaranteed them
liberty to practice the same and to develop their social and
religions institutions in so far as they do not conflict with
uhc generally acknoweldged principles of humanity.
Accordingly in Calcutta and other citics in India we
frequently find a stately Christian church side by side with a
Hindoo temple with its officiating priests. On one side
of the street we may see a fine European residence filled with
guests around the dinner-table, eating, chatting, and
toast-ng just as at home, and on the other a Hindoo villa, where
curbaned Brahmins, in a squatting posture, eat their rice or
moke their hokah, while extolling the merits of their
juggernaut. At popular meetings and fetes European lords»
bishops, officials, and ladies are often seen engaged in a
riendlv conversation with Hindoo princes, or learned
pundits, Mohammedan warriors, Persian, Armenian or Jewish
nerchants. On the streets and promenades the European
carriage and the Hindoo palanquin are seen side by side; in
Calcutta there are scorcs of high schools and academies on
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