Life and Travel in India Being Recollections of a Journey Before the Days of Railroads
CHAPTER VIII.
A Visit to the House of Baboo Ram Chunder.--His Wife.--Rajpoot Wrestlers.--Nautchnees, or Hindoo Ballet-Girls.--A Hindoo Drama.--Visit to a Nautchnees' School.--Bayahdiers, or Dancing-Girls, attached to the Hindoo Temples.--Profession, Education, Dress, Character, Fate in Old Age and After Death.--Cusbans, or Common Women.--Marked Differences between these three Classes of Public Women 173