Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Catholic Missions in Southern India to 1865
IN looking at the Map of the World, there is something astonishing in the consideration that the small spots called the British Islands should contain a people whose in?uence is felt all over the universe, and whose empire and possessions extend into every climate and into every part of the known world. By far the most valuable of these possessions, both for wealth and population, is the peninsula of Hindostan, containing at least inhabitants in its vast plains, forests, and mountains. This immense country is peopled by a number of different races and nations, as distinct in personal appearance and language as the various nations of Europe; yet throughout there is a great similarity in manners and customs induced by the in?uence of the Brahminical religion, which prevails more or less over the whole continent of Hindostan.
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