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.
Band, native, 102, 140; English, 102; "Europe," 102
Baptism, 23, 338; Nonconformist laxity concerning, 5, 86
Beggars, feasts to, 12; Hindu religious, 201
Books in India, 143, 148; prayer, 144, 149; price of, 149
Brahmins, 84, 85, 164, 265; ladies, 23; thread, 122
Bribes, 296; on the railway, 296; in trade, 298
Caretaker, the faithful, 28; his contentment, 29; his prayers, 30
Caste, 167, 210, 278; breach of, 168, 237, 341
Cemetery, Christian, 263; consecrated, 267; Cross, 267; Hindu, 173
Character, Indian, 24, 90, 157, 249, 254, 289; shallow, 158, 160, 166
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
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
Customs of East and West, 234, 239, 284, 294
Dance, _nautch_, 76, 79; religious, 155, 156
Delhi, 177, 181, 196, 198; declaration at, 162
_Dhobie_, washerman, 43, 317; Christian, 318
_Dhota_, Hindu garment, 41, 44, 55, 79, 193, 198, 284
Dress, English, 40, 41, 42, 236, 291, 300, 301; Indian, 41, 44, 45, 46, 65, 236; policeman's, 46