| Show ONE CANNOT generalize ABOUT INDIA NINE bof INE people outlet ten stilie still III of the people of india when th they ey mean cheun me peoples ot of that continent when oer OCT a period of 0 dint one tins hns been brought into contact with the bust business ness I 1 lice ot of bombay the indolent and eusy going burman the cultured of southern india the primitive kohl or baill of the jungles of centrum india the te er ennit notional lina in lInb ilont of 0 hie flip towns of bengal the cheerful clip erful IIII hill men of the entera enfer ern ilnia loyas layus the great landowners ot of the united provinces and the punjab the proud aristocracy ot of the lie wild of the northwest frontier sod and the picturesque people of hula balu ch istah one realizes reull zes it Is hu impossible possIble to generalize about india one does not cot generalize about europe and in some borne respects europe la Is far m more ore than india never th eless there are certain roush rough generalizations which may lie be mode thus it may be sold said that inilla indin Is essentially senti ally an agricultural country 72 per cent of her people or being dependent to in one form or another upon uarl c culture to fo their livelihood the population as a whole lives in small towns find and villages Til lages there are on tie the whole of this huge con continent tinen less than towns with a population of 10 XU and only 30 towns with a population of and upwards again take the case of climate in a general wy way india Is a hot country and the tact fact that there are parts ot of india where cold weather Is experienced during certain seasons and ports parts where winter of almost arctic severity prevails does docs not disprove the general contention it if india were not a hot country it Is unlikely that ner her people would consume about miles of cotton cloth every year as tn in point of tact fact they do it may also be asserted that as a general rule the outstanding cli characteristics arac te of mohammedan architecture are its simple grandeur ot of outline its purity anti and its stateliness while hindu Is characterized by an amazing detail of ornamentation and elaborate intricacy of design lastly it to Is undoubtedly the cae e excepting in those regions which are dominated by trat that the hindu doctrine of transmigration exercises exercise an almost universal sway these are which are unquestionably true but having made them ns as a protest against a too rigid interpretation of the statement that one cannot generalize nebout india let me odd add that I 1 subscribe to it on th whole f fl 0 list HI western coloa |
