My mother India

Thus, in the year 200 B. C., wrote Manu, the great law-giver of India--India, whose mind was full grown when the western nations were yet unborn; India, whose life rolled on whi...

Irresponsible writers have discussed the marriage system of India in so irrational and inaccurate a manner that the name _India_ has become, in the mind of the westerner, synony...

The distinctive feature of Hindu culture is its femininity. While the northern branch of the Aryan family represented by the European group had to undergo hard struggle with uny...

The caste system of India is the most widely discussed subject all over the world; it is also the least understood. It is really surprising how little people outside of India kn...

Mohandass Karamchand Gandhi is today the acknowledged leader of three hundred million inhabitants of India. He is the author of the Non-violent Non-coöperation movement, adopted...

In a previous chapter we discussed the character and spirit of Mahatma Gandhi into whose hands has fallen the duty of leading a country of 300 million people through a political...

In this chapter we shall relate briefly the story of what occurred in Punjab during the troubled days of 1919. These incidents, popularly known as “the Punjab wrongs,” led to fa...

Only two hundred years ago India was the richest country in the world. Today it is the poorest. The gorgeous palaces of its kings with their enormous treasures were the objects...

Before discussing at length the problems of Indian nationalism, let us consider whether India is really a nation, or is merely a composite of peoples inhabiting the same country...