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BY T RAMAKRISHNA B A	A
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With an Introduction by the Right Hon Sir M E GRANT DUFF G C S I	B
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London T Fisher Unwin	C
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OPINIONS	D
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The Occidentals led by Macaulay had too complete a victory for the good	E
of India Much that they said and did was wise but their system has	F
failed in many ways and was indeed never intended to breed up men	G
interested in the past of their own land Nearly all that has been	C
learned about it has been learned by the labour of Europeans and yet	H
natives trained to European methods of research have facilities of kinds	I
for prosecuting research which we have not I had a great deal to say	J
on that subject and on many other cognate ones in an address which I	B
delivered in my capacity of Chancellor of the University of Madras	K
shortly before I left the country but I do not know that it has had	L
much effect since though an excellent little book by Mr Ramakrishna on	M
the village life of South India is a step in the right direction We	N
want however quite a small library of works of that kind before the	A
harvest that is ready for the sickle of intelligent native observers is	O
gathered in The Right Hon Sir M E Grant Duff G C S I in the	A
Contemporary Review	P
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The subject is interesting and I do not doubt from the specimen which I	B
saw that you would treat it in a fresh and agreeable way What we need	Q
in Europe is to have the reality the actual working of these Indian	R
institutions which we have so often mentioned brought home to us and	S
probably such a writer as yourself may do this better than a European	R
could do The Right Hon James Bryce D C L	T
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Ramakrishna a literary gentleman belonging to Madras who has written	R
a charming book called Life in an Indian Village Professor Eric	U
Robertson in Macmillan's series of Orient Readers	V
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I can name more than a dozen Indian authors whose works can fairly rank	W
with some of the best productions of Englishmen The well known author	X
of Maxima and Minima viz the late Professor Ramachundra was	Y
considered by no other than De Morgan the famous mathematician as an	Z
original genius of a remarkable order A celebrated Cambridge	A2
Mathematician once told me that he set a problem for the Mathematical	B2
Tripos basing it upon Ramachundra's Maxima and Minima and with the	A
exception of a few that headed the list none were able to solve the	A
problem In the late Toru Dutt a young Bengali native Christian lady	N
some of the leading literary men of England found a poet of no mean	C2
powers Mr Edmund Gosse writes as follows in the preface to her poems	D2
that have been published by an English firm It is difficult to	P
estimate what we have lost in the premature death of Toru Dutt	E2
Literature has no honours which need have been beyond the grasp of a	A
girl who at the age of twenty one and in languages separated from her	X
own by so deep a chasm had produced so much of lasting worth When	G
the history of the literature of our country comes to be written there	F2
is sure to be a page in it dedicated to this fragile exotic blossom of	G2
song Dr Bandarkar of Bombay is considered to be one of the best	H2
Orientalists of the day A number of Bengali gentlemen have earned a	A
lasting fame by literary productions in English among whom I may	J
mention the Rev Lal Behari Day late Professor in the Hooghly College	A2
and Mr Dutt of the Bengal Civil Service In our own Presidency Mr	X
Ramakrishna Pillai has produced a work in English Village Life in	C
India that has won the praise of Sir Grant Duff Professor	X
Satthianadhan's Lecture on Intellectual Results in India	A
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Mr Ramakrishna takes a typical village in the Madras Presidency the	A
most Indian part of India and shows us in half a dozen lucid chapters	V
that the wants of the villagers are all material wells roads better	X
breeds of cattle and so on and that they do not and will not for a	A
long time care one cash for anything which happens or which might be	N
made to happen in the great outer world beyond their palm groves and	S
rice fields There is nothing political in this pleasant little book we	N
are pleased to say although we have drawn this political moral from it	I2
It is a truthfully written account of native life in one of those	J2
villages which dot the great district a tract much larger than the	A
British Isles the daily existence of whose peaceful and not altogether	X
unhappy population it is intended to illustrate and it can be dipped	K2
into or read through with equal satisfaction and advantage Daily	N
Telegraph London	R
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Life in an Indian Village is an amusing and clear portrayal of the	A
manners and customs of the inhabitants of a village in the Madras	K
Presidency The author first depicts his little community and then	G
proceeds to describe the avocations of all the leading personages As	F
Kelambakam may be taken as a type of thousands of such villages the	A
book will be found particularly interesting to those who are likely to	P
be brought into contact with the natives of India Sir M E Grant Duff	L2
has written an Introduction in which he suggests how the simple	B2
villagers can be benefited by their European neighbours Morning Post	M2
London	R
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The book itself is excellent and gives a sketch of Indian village	N2
society from inside It is possible however that the ordinary English	O2
reader will prefer to take his view of the black men from Mr Kipling	P2
rather than from a representative of the natives themselves If he	N
wishes to have a native view of native life he will find it in this	Q2
work Athenaeum London	R
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India is always fertile in surprises for English readers We know	R2
something of those among its peoples which have given us trouble but	E2
here is a dim population of which many Englishmen will scarcely have	S2
heard the name the Dravidians of the Madras Presidency and we learn	T2
with something like astonishment that they number more than the	A
inhabitants of England The village which Mr Ramakrishna describes for	U2
us is one of more than fifty thousand averaging about five hundred	V2
inhabitants apiece The first thing that strikes us in his account is	O
its highly organised condition It is a self sufficing little	B2
commonwealth in which a quite surprising variety of professions or	U2
occupations are represented Pall Mall Gazette London	R
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We welcome this little book as a much truer picture of Indian life than	Z
many more ambitious works St James's Gazette London	R
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The work is written in admirable English even the blank verse is	O
perfect The story of Harichendra alone is worth the cost of the	A
volume Literary World London	R
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We have read with great pleasure the book Life in an Indian Village	N2
as it deals with an interesting and not at all unimportant subject in a	A
plain and unpretending way Simplicity has a powerful charm of its own	W2
and we recommend the book to all whose heart can still be touched by	B
inartificial descriptions of idyllic gently flowing country life He	N
who does not assume the tone of India what can it teach us but cares	X2
to profit by teaching will learn a great deal even from these simple	B2
village tales Asiatic Quarterly Review London	R
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What more England can do for India is admirably and tersely set forth in	C
the Introduction which with Mr Ramakrishna's pleasant description of	G2
Indian village life deserves to be widely read Mr J B Knight	Y2
C I E in the Indian Magazine London	R
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Books about India by intelligent travellers have their uses and books	Z2
by Europeans who have lived for years in the country and studied the	A
people are still more valuable but it is only a native of India who can	Z
really show us Indian life as it is There are already several books in	C
English by educated Indians which give us valuable insight into what	E2
was once the unknown of Indian domestic and social life Mr T	N
Ramakrishna whose Life in an Indian Village is introduced to the	A
notice of the British public by Sir M E Grant Duff has produced a	A
series of very interesting sketches of the more important features of	G2
village life in the South of India They will be found to be very	N
readable sometimes amusing always interesting and instructive Any	N
one who reads this book with intelligence and care will be able to form	A3
for himself a very accurate picture of a Madras village and to	P
understand the composition of the village community which is the basis	K
of the whole framework of Indian social life Scotsman Edinburgh	R2
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Mr Ramakrishna's book is picturesque and sympathetic Manchester	X
Guardian	R
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A well written book and one which gives a realistic description of a	A
condition of life which is the outcome of centuries of	G2
isolation Leeds Mercury	N
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It is not an easy thing to acquire a clear conception of a life and a	A
civilisation other in every respect to our own and it may be reasonably	N
questioned if one Englishman in a thousand has more than a very vague	B3
idea of what life in an Indian village is like Here is a pleasant and	S
graphic little volume He may acquire that knowledge from the sketches	C3
of an Indian gentleman who knows the subject through and through and	S
has moreover so much of European culture that he is able to present	D3
the facts in a form that will not seem strange or	U2
incredible Birmingham Post	M2
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A volume issued by Mr T Fisher Unwin Life in an Indian Village is	O
a sample of the kind of book relating to our Eastern Empire that we	N
should like to see multiplied It is the production of a scholarly	N
native T Ramakrishna B A who writes excellent idiomatic English	O2
without the slightest tendency to Johnsonian eloquence Christian	R
Leader Glasgow	R2
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The manners and customs of the people are vividly reflected in these	E3
pages and a picturesque account is given of a number of notabilities	E3
such as the physician c Speaker London	R
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The book cannot fail to fulfil the author's desire in exciting a deeper	X
interest in the people whom he so sympathetically introduces to the	A
British public Independent London	R
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Written with much na vet British Weekly London	R
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The author of this book deserves our thanks and congratulations Himself	F3
a highly educated native of the Madras Presidency he has drawn a series	E3
of pictures of the village life of Southern India The occupations	E3
the recreations the religion the distribution of labour the	A
recurrence of feast and festival with much more are all told in	C
amusing style and with such graphic power as to leave a vivid impression	R
upon the reader's mind Bookseller London	R
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Madras should indulge some measure of pride in having turned out a	A
University graduate who can write the English language better than most	M2
Englishmen Ramakrishna's Life in an Indian Village is a charming	P2
account of Dravidian homes and customs It is the work of a young man	Z
who has profited by Western enlightenment and yet feels a kindly glow	R2
in his heart for all that belongs to the humblest folk in his native	G3
land His sympathy is beautiful because it is devoid of any pretence or	U2
forced pathos His language is choice yet simply constructed There is	E3
real literary flavour about this work which has just been published by	B
Fisher Unwin When will the Punjab give us a young man who can feel and	S
think and write like this Civil and Military Gazette Lahore	U2
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Mr T Ramakrishna a graduate of the Madras University may be	N
congratulated on the success which seems likely to attend the	A
publication of his well written little book on Indian Village Life	H3
Judging by the comments that have appeared in the English papers it is	E3
just the kind of book the public at home wants not too statistical to	P
be readable and not too ambitious in design to be trustworthy but just	I3
a simple picturesque account of the particular part of India which the	A
author really knows London Correspondent of the Englishman	R
Calcutta	A
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The great virtue of Mr Ramakrishna's writing is the absence of pretence	E3
and fustian Space is not wasted on ambitious and worthless descriptions	E3
of scenery or on vague disquisitions of a sentimental character	X
Everywhere he is simple straightforward and effective Writing in	C
excellent English and in unexceptionable style he tells plainly and	S
simply what he has to say and is the more successful because he is less	E3
ambitious It is to be hoped that Mr Ramakrishna's interesting	P2
sketches of Southern Indian village life will obtain a wide circulation	R
in England He is to be congratulated on having produced a work of no	R2
little merit and originality Madras Mail	J3
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To doubters of the good results of Western education in this Presidency	E3
better proof could hardly be given than is provided	V2