EAST AND WEST ON BOARD SHIP
Christians and Hindu customs. The carpentry instructor; A
taint of Hinduism; he retains his pigtail. Indians on their
way to Europe; perplexities about bath and food. The Jain
sect; their views. The Sikhs. Going to Germany for Sanskrit.
Conversation of English-speaking Hindus. Indians on deck.
East and West pull together. No room for the theosophist.
Some missionaries advocate the retention by Christian converts of such
Hindu customs as are not directly connected with idolatry, especially
in connection with marriage ceremonies. Others maintain that it is
impossible really to distinguish between what is innocent and what is
not, and that the only safe course is to come out altogether and be
separate. The elaborate restrictions concerning food, given to the
children of Israel, were apparently chiefly designed to prevent them
from mixing socially with the idolatrous people with whom they were
surrounded, lest they should drop back into any of the old evil ways.
For the same reason it would seem necessary in India for the Christian
convert to separate himself from everything which is in any way
distinctive of Hinduism, quite apart from whether the thing itself is
harmful or not. It is certain that lapses back to Hinduism have been
most frequent amongst Christians of those Missions where the laxer
view has prevailed.
An illustration somewhat to the point may be found in the case of the
carpentry instructor in the Poona City Mission, who was a convert from
Hinduism. He received the name of Bhumya at his baptism--his full name
being Bhumya Virappa Chondikar. The second name was that of his
father, which, according to Hindu custom, is always borne by the son,
and the last was his family or surname. He did not improve his
financial status by becoming a Christian. He was carpenter-master
before, and continued to be so for many years afterwards. But his
change of religion cut him off from any possibility of inheritance
from Hindu relations, of whom he had several in rather prosperous
circumstances. It also made such a ferment in his own household, where
he had a wife and mother-in-law and little son, that he had to leave
his home and lodge elsewhere so that he might not "pollute" them, as
they would express it, by eating with them. Two years after his own
baptism, however, he had the joy of seeing his wife and now _two_
little children, baptized, and the home life was happily resumed.
Eventually even his mother-in-law became a Christian.
But in spite of his own undoubted earnestness, his devout use of the
sacraments, his constant attendance at all the services of the church,
a sort of taint of Hinduism clung to him all through life and to some
extent dimmed his Christian joy, and prevented his example, in many
ways so edifying, from bearing the fruit that might otherwise have
been the case. None of his numerous Hindu friends were led to
Christianity through his influence, and none of his own relations
followed his example, nor was it possible to use him much in
evangelistic work, in spite of his readiness to help. He had a theory
that Christianity had somehow been evolved out of Hinduism, and though
even his intimate friends could never get to the bottom of his strange
ideas, his preaching was sufficiently unorthodox to make it necessary
that he should be a silent member of the preaching party in the
streets of the city.
The retention of Hindu ideas which thus warped his Christian life, and
prevented it from influencing his fellow-countrymen as it otherwise
might have done, may partly be accounted for by the fact that he not
only retained in every particular after his baptism the outward garb
of a Hindu and wore no Christian symbol, but his partially shaved
head, and rather long pigtail which he continued to wear, were so
definitely the outward tokens of Hinduism that he was often taken for
a Hindu, and several people at various times were startled to see a
heathen man, as they thought, collecting the alms in church.
The chief moral value of Bhumya's life is to be found in the fact
that, in spite of Hindu memories continuing to have some mysterious
attraction for him, he was both in life and death unswerving and
unshaken in his allegiance to Christianity.
Certainly a P. & O. steamer can no longer be described as a "white
man's ship," as the young officer expressed it when he complained of
the presence of Indians on board. The number of Easterns who go to
Europe for educational and other purposes increases so rapidly that
they now form a distinct element on many steamers. One autumn when
coming to England, half the passengers in the second saloon were
Easterns on their way westwards, chiefly for educational purposes, and
travelling at that season in order to be in time for the classes and
colleges, which begin their new course or term in October. We
calculated that there were nearly twenty different languages being
talked amongst us, and there were few phases of religion
unrepresented.
In the first saloon were a few wealthy Indian lads on their way to
English public schools, clad in the most approved English boys' dress,
and nearly all these travellers were in full European costume, though
a few retained the turban. Some of the combinations of colour in the
shape of socks and ties were rather startling. But Indians quickly
correct any mistakes of this kind after they have reached England, and
have had time to observe what well-dressed people usually wear. Many
of them were at first in great perplexity how to perform their
ablutions in English baths, and the first morning or two they might be
seen wandering about in the region of the baths with anxious faces.
But they somehow found some solution to their difficulties, and
ultimately distracted the man in charge of the baths by staying in
long beyond the regulation ten minutes. "Too long," I heard the
bathman say to one of these Indian gentlemen, who had been taking his
bath in the leisurely fashion to which he had been accustomed in his
own home. "_Not_ too long," was the laconic reply.
The question of food is also a cause of great anxiety to some. "We are
vegetarians," I heard one of them say to a ship's steward as he
entered the saloon for his first meal, and the puzzled steward went
off to consult his superiors as to what was to be done. But as the
mere fact of crossing the seas to a foreign country constitutes a
breach of caste, according to strict Hindu law, which will have to be
atoned for on return, further breaches do not make much difference,
and many of these travellers appear to enjoy their newly found liberty
and eat freely all that is set before them, except that beef and pork
are respectively avoided by Hindus and Mohammedans. Modern-minded
Hindus even contend that to cross the seas does not break caste, and
that their sacred writings support this view, and the matter has
become the subject of long-drawn-out litigation by aggrieved Hindus
who have been out-casted on their return from foreign travel.
One of the voyagers belonged to the Jain sect amongst the Hindus, who
take the most elaborate precautions to avoid even the accidental
destruction of the smallest animal life. He had been prudent enough to
bring a Jain with him to act as his cook; but this man becoming
completely incapacitated by sea-sickness, his employer had to fall
back upon such stores of dry food as he had with him, until the cook
recovered. Indians are not good sailors, and a very moderate sea sent
most of them to the seclusion of their cabins.
This Jain was going to London to become a barrister. He told me that
his sect believes in the immortality of God, the soul, and matter.
Hence the two last are as indestructible as the first. The world,
therefore, will always exist, and each soul will continue to be
transmigrated for any number of ages until it gets absorbed into God.
Not to lead an exemplary life involves the unpleasant risk of
reappearing in some debased form, and also delays the realisation of
the final absorption. Their particularity about the taking of life
presumably arises from the possibility that if you destroy even the
humblest insect it may be a relation who has unfortunately had to
assume this form, and causes even eggs to be classed amongst forbidden
articles, because they contain the germ of life.
Three brothers, Sikhs, kept in their little inside cabin almost all
the voyage, with the door and ventilators generally closed, and seemed
perfectly content, except when prostrated by sea-sickness. They took
all their meals there, and they were heard imploring their steward to
be careful not to bring them any "beef." The smallness and stuffiness
of their cabin perhaps recalled pleasantly their Indian home. They
talked and laughed the whole day, and would have certainly done so
half the night, except that the English occupant of the next cabin
called upon them at bedtime and suggested that having talked all day
it might be well for the sake of others to devote the night to sleep,
and they cheerfully and courteously accepted the hint. Now and then,
if it was very fine and smooth, they came on deck, but held no
intercourse with the other Indian passengers, and played cards most of
the time. They wore European coats and shirts, the tails of the latter
being worn outside according to Indian custom. Their legs were cased
in the white breeches peculiar to their race, very baggy in the upper
part, but fitting so close below that the problem of how they get into
them remains a mystery. On their heads were immense and picturesque
white turbans. It was touching to see the extent to which the elder
brother was looked up to, with that delightful combination of
affection and respect characteristic of this particular relationship
in India. They were gentle, courteous people, and everybody liked
them.
An Indian, who called himself a Parsee, but there was reason to think
that he was really a Bengali Hindu, was on his way to Germany to learn
Sanskrit. As India is its home, although it is no longer a spoken
language, except that Sanskrit words are found in many vernaculars, it
appeared strange that an Indian should be travelling westwards in
order to learn an Eastern language. But he explained that the Indian
Pundits, or teachers, though they know Sanskrit, have no knowledge of
how to teach it, and with characteristic disregard for the value of
time, spend at least six years in teaching what, with more rational
methods, might be learnt in two. In Germany this Indian hoped to see
the most up-to-date way of teaching languages, and then he proposed to
return to India and introduce the modern system in the college of
which he said he was professor of Sanskrit.
Passing alongside the Italian coast, he said to me: "I hope very much
to see Italy before I return to my own country. I understand that the
Italian cathedrals are very beautiful, and a cathedral always appeals
to me very strongly. I should also like to see Assisi. The character
of S. Francis has great charms for me." I said that, with ideas such
as these, he ought to be a Christian. "Possibly," he replied; "I have
the greatest veneration for Christ as the greatest among prophets."
English-speaking Hindus, however, have a remarkable power of adapting
their sentiments to their society. I overheard the same man
contrasting, for the benefit of a young Egyptian, the way in which
famine is dealt with in a native state and by the Government of India,
by which it would appear that whereas the former did everything, the
latter did nothing.
In the saloon the Indians naturally gathered to their own tables, but
in fine weather they entered into the usual deck life of a liner, sat
about in deck-chairs, made some show of reading, chiefly English light
literature, made an attempt at the stereotyped deck games, played
cards largely, and discovered that lemon-squash was a cooling drink,
and those who could afford it went in for it often. They nearly all of
them knew exactly where they were going to in London, and expected to
be met by friends or relations already there. There are also many
agencies and individuals who are ready to interest themselves in these
young students, and to help them with advice and sympathy when they
are willing to accept it. There are now quite a number of Indian
houses in London where students lodge, and where they can arrange to
have their food served in orthodox fashion. A few of these houses have
at times become centres of mischief, and have had to be kept under
observation.
The Indians on board lived very much in cliques, just as they do in
their own country, and with few exceptions there was but little
general interchange of ideas amongst themselves. Curiously enough,
the connecting link was to be found in the English population on
board, who mixed with them all good-humouredly. That it is possible
for East and West to meet on equal terms, and to dine in the same room
if not at the same table, and to get on happily in daily intercourse,
was proved by the pleasant way in which, within the narrow limits of a
ship's second-class quarters, everybody managed to pull together. It
was also a satisfactory feature of this medley of races and religions
that the only person for whom there was no place, and who finally got
sent to Coventry, was an Englishwoman who professed to be a
theosophist.
INDEX
Affection, 15
Agricultural experiments, 329
Agriculture, 328; colleges of, 328
Animals, 176
Antelope, 177
Anthony, St., 245
Ants, 191;
white, 191
Architecture, Indian view of, 17
Art, 60;
degenerating, 60;
Christian, 64
Artists, Indian, 63
Ascetics, 3, 196, 199;
maxims for, 166
Band, native, 102, 140;
English, 102;
"Europe," 102
Baptism, 23, 338;
Nonconformist laxity concerning, 5, 86
Barbel tree, 197
Barber, 271
Bath, 110, 290, 293, 341
Beasts, wild, 170
Bees, 190
Beetles, 189
Beggars, feasts to, 12;
Hindu religious, 201
Bells, bullocks', 324
Benson, Father, 156
Bhumya, his conversion, 338
Bible, quoted by Hindus, 4
_Bile polar_, festival for cattle, 245
_Bin_, musical instrument, 101
Birds, 185, 187;
scaring, 271
Bishop, Indian, 93
Blacksmiths, 271
Blasting, 261
Blister beetle, 189
Bookbinding, 150
Books in India, 143, 148; prayer, 144, 149; price of, 149
Boundary stones, 221, 253
Boy, Indian, 161, 163, 168, 192
Brahmins, 84, 85, 164, 265;
ladies, 23;
thread, 122
Brain-fever bird, 185
Brass, its polish, 62
Bread, 109
Bribes, 296;
on the railway, 296;
in trade, 298
Buffalo, 179;
the dead, 71
Bugs, 192
Bullocks, 324, 325;
drawing water, 98
Bungalow, 292, 297
Burial, 71, 268
Butterflies, 195
Camels, 181
Card-playing, 117
Caretaker, the faithful, 28;
his contentment, 29;
his prayers, 30
Carpenters, 271
Carpets, 78
Caste, 167, 210, 278;
breach of, 168, 237, 341
Catholic Church, 88, 96
Cattle, festival for, 245
Cemetery, Christian, 263;
consecrated, 267;
Cross, 267;
Hindu, 173
Chairs, 56
Character, Indian, 24, 90, 157, 249, 254, 289;
shallow, 158, 160, 166
Cheating labourers, 26, 30, 31
Choir-boys, 104
_Chowdi_, 215;
sleeping in, 314
Christian art, 64, 65
Christian Indians, 5, 15, 209, 226;
their hospitality, 13, 43;
honesty, 242;
respect for their mother, 14;
dress for, 41;
their expenses, 42;
their unpunctuality, 51;
their meals, 56, 236;
_panchayat_, 68;
their happiness, 115;
their prayer books, 144, 149;
houses, 254, 255
Church at Yerandawana, 19-23, 126, 155, 282
Clarke, Sir George, 103
Clergy, Indian, 89, 90, 91, 92
Clerk, Hindu village, 223, 224, 253
Cobra, 309, 310
Cockroaches, 190
Cold, 275;
Indians sensitive to, 276
Collectors, 80, 230
Comfort, increase of, 299, 301
Confessions to police, 217
Confirmation, 94
Conversion of India, 83;
of Brahmins, 84, 85;
of low castes, 85;
in famine time, 85
Cooking, particular about, 108;
pots, 56, 271;
graceful shape of, 61
Court, High, 212;
petty, 212;
Police, 214;
Registrar's, 265
Courtesy of Indians, 231
Cricket, 130, 285
Crime, 217, 218
Crispin, St., church of, 65, 266
Crocodiles, 182
Cross, Southern, 182
Crows, 187
Customs of East and West, 234, 239, 284, 294
Dacoits, 314, 315
Dance, _nautch_, 76, 79;
religious, 155, 156
_Dasara_, Hindu festival, 244
Daughter-in-law, 210, 211
Deer, 177
Defects of Indians, 2
Delhi, 177, 181, 196, 198;
declaration at, 162
_Delhi Mission News_, 6
_Dhobie_, washerman, 43, 317;
Christian, 318
_Dhota_, Hindu garment, 41, 44, 55, 79, 193, 198, 284
Dishonesty, Hindu, 27, 297
Dissenters, 289
Donkey, 179
Drawing, 18, 281
Dress, English, 40, 41, 42, 236, 291, 300, 301;
Indian, 41, 44, 45, 46, 65, 236;
policeman's, 46
East and West, customs of, 234, 239, 284, 294;
travelling, 228, 234;
on board ship, 231, 337, 340, 346
Education, 84;
mistaken, 146, 283;
effects of, 247, 286;
rational, 283
Elephants, 180
Employers of labour, 24
English, dress, 40, 41, 42, 57, 343;
workers, 95;
letters in, 144;
advertisements in, 145;
literature for Indians, 146;
the, in India, 288, 292
Entertainments, 74
European customs, 40;
control, 89;
compartment, 232;
goods, 280
Evening-tide, 335
Eye-fly, 194
Face, Hindu, 115, 208
Fakir, 196
Famine, 85
Feasts, to beggars, 12; village, 138
Fiction, India in, 143
Fingers, eating with, 236
Fire-flies, 183
Flattery, 119
Flies, 194
Flowers, offerings of, 18
Food, 107
Frost, 276
Fuel, 329
Furniture, 78
Games, 130, 285
Garlands, 19, 81, 230
Gifts, 263, 268
Gods, Hindu, 3, 120;
conception of, 119, 120;
burial of, 118;
robbery of, 118
_Golden Threshold, The_, 111
_Gosavies_, 198
Government officials, 241
Governors, 238
Greetings, 305
Grinding, 98, 105
_Gunpatti_, Hindu god, 118
_Guru_, religious teacher, 202
Gymnasium, village, 137
Heber, Bp., 288
High castes, 84, 208, 248, 306
Hindu college, visitors from, 21
Hinduism, 2, 5, 6, 117, 128;
and Christianity, 4, 6, 115, 121, 128, 209, 244, 285, 337, 338;
definitions of, 6-10
Hindus, nominal, 58, 59, 121;
educated, 247
Hole, Mr. W., pictures by, 127
Home life, absence of, 56;
of Brahmin doctor, 57
Honesty, 226, 242, 243;
of the _dhobie_, 322
Horses, 181
Hospitality, 11;
Hindu customs concerning, 12;
of Indian Christians, 13, 43
Houses, 249, 250, 254;
how furnished, 55;
Indian in London, 345
_Howd_, tank, 317
Hyderabad, the Nizam of, 112
Hymns, 104
Idolatry, 2, 208, 337
Immorality, 69
_Inam_, grant, 74, 264
_Inamdar_, 74;
his house, 78
Insects, 188
Inspector, police, 215
Institute, Indian at Oxford, 45
Irrigation, 330
_Itte-dhandu_, boys' game, 135
Jackals, 173
Jacob, Sir Swinton, 61
_Jain_, sect, 342
Jerome, the story of a Brahmin boy, 115
Jewellery, native, 62
Jeypore, museum at, 61
Kala, village of, 171
Kathiawar, 175
Khandala, 320
Kim's talk, 143
King, H.M. the, 153, 162
Kipling, Rudyard, 143, 175
Kite, bird, 187
Kites, 133
_Krait_, snake, 310
Labour, employers of, 24;
dignity of, 129
Land, buying, 263
Landmark, neighbour's, 253
Language, 306
Law-courts, 119, 212
"Lawrence," the, school, 162
Lights, incandescent, 139, 272
Lion, 175
Litigation, 224
Locusts, 183
Low castes, 85, 278
Magisterial inquiry, 67
_Mahars_, low-caste, 70, 71, 214;
boys, 72
Mantis, 195
Manure, 329; farmers and, 331
Map, 222
Marbles, 131
Marriage, 151;
of widows, 206, 209
Meals, 55, 107, 207, 236;
English and Indian, 107, 109, 238
Medicine-men, 315
Middleton, Bp., 291
Military display, 153, 154
Mills, grinding, 98, 105
Mineral waters, 139
Misconceptions about India, 1, 272, 273, 288
Mission work, 89;
heads of, 94, 96
Mohammedans, 302;
ascetics, 196;
conception of heaven, 303;
egg-merchant, 198, 200;
and marriage, 302, 304;
merchants, 303;
saints, 75
Money, 225
Mongoose, 178
Monkeys, 177
Monsoon, 273-5
Moral maxims, 166;
instruction, 286
Mosquitoes, 193;
net for, 193
Mother, respect for, 13, 16;
Swithun's, 15
Mother-in-law, 210, 211
Motor cars, 80, 181;
bullocks and, 326
Music, 81, 98, 100, 101;
Sir G. Clarke on, 103, 104
Musical instruments, 101
Naidu, Mrs Sarojini, 111;
her portrait, 115
National characteristics, 141
Nature, illustrations from, 164;
Indian view of, 17;
the world of, 182
_Nautch_, dance, 76, 79
Neatness, lack of, 90, 91
Night, alarms, 309, 313;
thieves, 251;
travelling by, 99;
watchmen, 312
Obedience, Indian, 25
Obstinacy, 159
Oman, Mr. J. C., 166
Pageants, 151
Painting, mural, 64
Palaces, 60
Palanquin bearers, 100
_Panchayat_, committee of five, 66;
Christian, 68
_Pan supari_, leaf and betel nut, 75, 80;
party, 76
Panther, 172
Paper, daily, 300;
vernacular, 301
Parsees, 48, 65, 125, 186, 271
_Patel_, headman, 71, 213, 214, 316;
his gift, 264
Patience, 92
Payments, how made, 26
Persian visitors, 126
Philosophy, Hindu, 111
Pictures, from England, 63;
by Indian artists, 63
Pigs, wild, 178
Plague Refuge Camp, 281
Pleaders, 225
Plural, use of, 306
Poetry, 112
Police, 213;
umbrellas for, 279
Political unrest, 131, 280
Poona City, 77, 164, 281;
ancient houses in, 60, 61;
modern houses in, 60, 61, 257
Post, cards, 34;
offices, 33;
postman, 38;
post-runners, 32
Postal privileges, 36;
service, 32;
train-sorters, 35
Potatoes, 335
Potter, 271
Poverty, 54, 108, 225
Prayer, Hindu, 30, 121
Prayer Book valued, 144
Printing, 149
Processions, 151;
funeral, 152;
religious, 154
Projects, unfinished, 158, 256;
imaginary, 257
Property, 221
Proverbial sayings, 270
Psalm cl., 156
Punishment, 161, 213
Purdah women, 81
Purity, 70
Pusa College, 328
Religion, 117;
true, 240
Religious controversy, 164;
phases, 124
Repartee, 129
Rest-house, 99
Rewards, government, 172
Rivers, 77, 183, 319
Robbery, by train-sorters, 35;
in temples, 118
Roman Catholics, 87, 124, 290
Rudeness, to employers, 24, 25;
to Indians, 228
Sacred books, Hindu, 3
Salvation Army, 290
Sanskrit, 344
Scenery, oblivious to, 17
Schoolboys, 219;
Hindu, 283, 340
Scorpions, 191
Sects, 87, 88
Servants, 295, 297;
punctuality, 52;
Christian, 242, 244, 269;
heathen, 243;
of Europeans, 72, 237, 238, 241
_Shiggram_, carriage, 299
_Shinde_, pigtail, 284, 339
Shoes, 299
Shops, 300
_Sikhs_, 343
Singing, 81, 98, 99, 100, 103, 140
Slang, 147
Smell of India, 305
Snakes, 293, 309, 312
Socks, 299
Soldiers, 100
Son, eldest, 332
Sparrows, 186
Spiders, 192
Spirit, Holy, 97
Squirrel, 176
State, native, 119
Station-masters, Indian, 49
Sugar cane, 331;
parties, 332;
juice, 333
Sun, 277;
caution about, 290
Survey Department, 222
Swallows, 186
Swearing, 125, 147
Swithun's mother, 15
Symons, Mr Arthur, 111
Telegrams, 37;
abuse of, 37
Temples, Hindu, 122;
behaviour in, 117
Thackeray, Mr., 195
Thieving, 218, 250
Tigers, 170;
den, 173;
tigress, 173
Tilak, Mr., 120, 281
Tips, 269
Titles, 74
Tomb, Mohammedan, 79, 196
Tom Tiddler's ground, 136
Toothbrush, 235
Tops, 132
Torture, 213, 217, 218
Trades, 270;
ancestral, 323
"Traveller's tale," 182
_Tulsi_ plant, 58, 208
Tunes, 103;
Indian, for hymns, 104
Turban, 44, 284, 343
Umbrellas, 278
Unfinished projects, 158, 256, 258, 260
Unpunctuality, 48;
instance of, 49;
on the railway, 48, 49;
at meals, 52, 53;
incurable, 50, 51;
amongst Christians, 51, 92, 93, 94;
illustration from parables, 52
Unrest, political, 278, 280
Villages, 66
Vultures, 186
Washerman, 317
Wasps, 190
Watchmen, night, 72
Wells, 258, 260
Widows, Hindu, 22, 204;
at Yerandawana, 206;
garments of, 205;
Home for, 205, 207, 299;
marriage of, 206, 209
Windows, 56
Wolf-boys, 174
Wolves, 174
Women, their dress, 44, 65;
their meals, 55;
_purdah_, 81;
grinding, 98, 105, 106
Work, low ideal of, 295
Wrestling, 137;
prizes for, 138;
competitions, 140
Wrongdoing, 212, 217, 218
Xavier, St Francis, 97
Yerandawana, 15, 18, 19, 33, 74, 126, 154, 196, 202, 206, 263
Yonge, Miss, 21
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