Clergy, Indian, 89, 90, 91, 92 Clerk, Hindu village, 223, 224, 253 Cobra, 309, 310 Cockroaches, 190 Cold, 275; Indians sensitive to, 276 Collectors, 80, 230 Comfort, increase of, 299, 301 Confessions to police, 217 Confirmation, 94 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 Courtesy of Indians, 231 Cricket, 130, 285 Crime, 217, 218 Crispin, St., church of, 65, 266 Crocodiles, 182 Cross, Southern, 182 Crows, 187 Customs of East and West, 234, 239, 284, 294 Dacoits, 314, 315 Dance, _nautch_, 76, 79; religious, 155, 156 _Dasara_, Hindu festival, 244 Daughter-in-law, 210, 211 Deer, 177 Defects of Indians, 2 Delhi, 177, 181, 196, 198; declaration at, 162 _Delhi Mission News_, 6 _Dhobie_, washerman, 43, 317; Christian, 318 _Dhota_, Hindu garment, 41, 44, 55, 79, 193, 198, 284 Dishonesty, Hindu, 27, 297 Dissenters, 289 Donkey, 179 Drawing, 18, 281 Dress, English, 40, 41, 42, 236, 291, 300, 301; Indian, 41, 44, 45, 46, 65, 236; policeman's, 46 East and West, customs of, 234, 239, 284, 294; travelling, 228, 234; on board ship, 231, 337, 340, 346 Education, 84; mistaken, 146, 283; effects of, 247, 286; rational, 283 Elephants, 180 Employers of labour, 24 English, dress, 40, 41, 42, 57, 343; workers, 95; letters in, 144; advertisements in, 145; literature for Indians, 146; the, in India, 288, 292 Entertainments, 74 European customs, 40; control, 89; compartment, 232; goods, 280 Evening-tide, 335 Eye-fly, 194 Face, Hindu, 115, 208 Fakir, 196 Famine, 85 Feasts, to beggars, 12; village, 138 Fiction, India in, 143 Fingers, eating with, 236 Fire-flies, 183 Flattery, 119 Flies, 194 Flowers, offerings of, 18 Food, 107 Frost, 276 Fuel, 329 Furniture, 78 Games, 130, 285 Garlands, 19, 81, 230 Gifts, 263, 268 Gods, Hindu, 3, 120; conception of, 119, 120; burial of, 118; robbery of, 118 _Golden Threshold, The_, 111 _Gosavies_, 198 Government officials, 241 Governors, 238 Greetings, 305 Grinding, 98, 105 _Gunpatti_, Hindu god, 118 _Guru_, religious teacher, 202 Gymnasium, village, 137 Heber, Bp., 288 High castes, 84, 208, 248, 306 Hindu college, visitors from, 21 Hinduism, 2, 5, 6, 117, 128; and Christianity, 4, 6, 115, 121, 128, 209, 244, 285, 337, 338; definitions of, 6-10 Hindus, nominal, 58, 59, 121; educated, 247 Hole, Mr. W., pictures by, 127 Home life, absence of, 56; of Brahmin doctor, 57 Honesty, 226, 242, 243; of the _dhobie_, 322 Horses, 181 Hospitality, 11; Hindu customs concerning, 12; of Indian Christians, 13, 43 Houses, 249, 250, 254; how furnished, 55; Indian in London, 345 _Howd_, tank, 317 Hyderabad, the Nizam of, 112 Hymns, 104 Idolatry, 2, 208, 337 Immorality, 69 _Inam_, grant, 74, 264