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" ... manners. I am of opinion that, in a political point of view, the information which the work of the Abbe Dubois has to impart might be of the greatest benefit in aiding the servants of the Government in conducting themselves more in unison with the... "
Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and Its Dependencies - Page 136
1818
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Description of the Character, Manners, and Customs of the People of India ...

Jean Antoine Dubois - India - 1817 - 604 pages
...of opinion that, in a political " point of view, the information which the work of the Abbe Dubois " has to impart might be of the greatest benefit in...with the " customs and prejudices of the natives." In the continuation of Major Wilkss Letter, that gentleman, so advantageously known to the world by...
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Description of the Character, Manners, and Customs of the People of India ...

Jean Antoine Dubois - Hindus - 1817 - 604 pages
...of opinion that, in apolitical " point of view, the information which the work of the Abbe Dubois " has to impart might be of the greatest benefit in...with the " customs and prejudices of the natives." In the continuation of Major Wilkss Letter, that gentleman, so advantageously known to the world by...
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Monthly Review; Or Literary Journal Enlarged

Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1818 - 596 pages
...his information, it was presumed, was likely to aid the servants of the British government, in often conducting themselves more in unison with the customs and prejudices of the natives. The work was accordingly surrendered by the author, and brought to England; where it remained a considerable...
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Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bombay, Volume 9

Asiatic Society of Bombay - Asia - 1872 - 636 pages
...am of opinion, that, in a political point of view, the information which the work of the Abbe Dubois has to impart might be of the greatest benefit in...unison with the customs and prejudices of the natives." 59 I would refer the curious reader to Bentley's Historical View of the Hindu Astronomy (Edition of...
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Writings and Speeches

Vishwanath Narayan Mandlik, Viṣvanātha Nārāyaṇa Maṇḍalik - India - 1896 - 836 pages
...am of opinion, that, in a political point of view, the information which the work of the Abbo Dubois has to impart might be of the greatest benefit in...conducting themselves more in unison with the customs aad prejudices of the natives." Feems to me that some spiritual beings w< re at one time, and are invoked...
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Hindu Manners, Customs and Ceremonies: The Classic First Hand Account of ...

Jean Antoine Dubois, Carrie Chapman Catt, Henry K. Beauchamp - Religion - 2002 - 788 pages
...am of opinion that, in a political point of view, -the information which the work of the Abbe Dubois has to impart might be of the greatest benefit in...with the customs and prejudices of the natives.' The purchase of the MS. was reported by the Madras Government to the Board of Directors in 1807 as 'an...
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The Bloodless Revolution: A Cultural History of Vegetarianism from 1600 to ...

Tristram Stuart - Cooking - 2007 - 692 pages
...copy, he immediately recognised its potential as handbook for Europeans in India and announced that it 'might be of the greatest benefit in aiding the servants...unison with the customs and prejudices of the natives'. Dubois sarcastically observed that 'the Europeans do not seem disposed to adopt the same rules of abstinence...
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The Imperial and Asiatic Quarterly Review and Oriental and Colonial Record

Asia - 1894 - 1040 pages
...Company on the recommendation of Lord William Bentinck and Sir James Mackintosh for the purpose of '• aiding the servants of the Government in conducting...unison with the customs and prejudices of the natives," deals in Part ii. Chap. iv. with " the particular horror of the Hindus for the flesh of the cow." "To...
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