• 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