A MISSION TO THE MYSORE; WITH Scenes and Facts ILLUSTRATIVE OF INDIA, ITS PEOPLE, AND ITS RELIGION. BY THE REV. WILLIAM ARTHUR, WESLEYAN MINISTER. LONDON: PARTRIDGE AND OAKEY, PATERNOSTER ROW; M'COMBE, GLASGOW; ORR, DUBLIN, (AGENTS); AND SOLD BY 1847. TO JOHN POYNDER, ESQUIRE, WHOSE ABLE AND SUSTAINED EXERTIONS, On behalf of Endia, HAVE, BY THE BLESSING OF GOD, ENCOURAGED EVERY LABOURER FOR HER ENLIGHTENMENT, REMOVED DISHONOURS FROM THE BRITISH NAME, AND FACILITATED THE REGENERATION OF A GREAT CONTINENT; THIS VOLUME IS MOST RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED. PREFACE. THE following pages, prepared with the hope of contributing, in some humble way, toward circulating information with regard to India, and pro moting an interest in its welfare, were communicated to the Wesleyan Methodist Magazine. Hundreds of persons who read them in that periodical have requested that they should be separately published, and a respectable New York journal has deemed them worthy of reproduction. To these encouragements, and not to any previous resolution, is due their appearance in the present form. The reader should be apprized that, as the views of Hindu mind and manners he will here find, were formed through familiar intercourse with the people of a district remote from any European station, they will probably differ, in some points, from those of writers who have resided only in the Presidencies or other centres of English influence. It should also be remembered that INDIA |