“It is a valuable contribution to Western knowledge of India, containing precisely what the American wants to know about that region.”--_Washington Evening Star_, Aug. 4, 1906. * * * * * Transcriber’s note Minor punctuation errors have been changed without notice. Accent marks have been standardized. The following printer errors have been changed. =CHANGED FROM TO= Page 12: “the _raison d'etre_ of that” “the _raison d'être_ of that” Page 26: “quieting down aplies” “quieting down applies” Page 30: “state, disintegradation” “state, disintegration”