![]() Posed by the Ganges, - and the degraded Slave, present theirĬry to Britain and shall not that cry be heard and reiterated,įrom " Dan to Beersheba," till the Senate and the Throne Ing Pilgrim (allured to the shrines of Idolatry, rendered moreĬelebrated by British connection and support), - the sick ex Infatuated Suttee, - the murdered female Infant, - the perish Will be encouraged by a humane and liberal public. Of the various piercing plaints of India to British humanity, It is lioj>ed that this revised, uniform, and enlarged edition, The midst of our citv : - it is a loud and bitter crv !v It has sounded in the ears of her Legislature : - it is heard in ![]() Has reached the British Isle, and reverberated from her shores : Raised for the daughters of sorrow on the plains of India. Man sympathies ? and what are nature's claims ? But no :. No voice be lifted up on their behalf? Then where are hu Grims, and the sick exposed by the Ganges], - hundreds ofĪvhom are annually sacrificed to its relentless cruelty, and yet Solate widows [and, it may be added, of female infants, pil " Shall superstitionīe suffered to issue her decrees, from year to year, and fromĪge to age, against the lives of poor defenceless and discon Of India, for the purpose of promoting the abolition of theĬruelties of heathenism, appears evident. The necessity of circulating information respecting the state To publish upon the different topics discussed in these pages. Out such important materials, he should never have presumed The Author's labour, in a considerable part of the work, hasīeen little more than selection and arrangement and. To the important materials supplied by these valuable Papers. Mote the welfare of British India, it is chiefly to be attributed ![]() Volume contain information of a nature calculated to pro In India, the Author is under the highest obligation to T. Widows, Infanticide, the Temple of Juggernaut, and Slavery 12, 1828." - From these valuable documentsįull and accurate information may be procured.įor the Parliamentary Papers on the Burning of Hindoo In India, were " ordered to be printed by the lion. Parliamentary Papers on Infanticide, and that a voluminousĬollection of Papers, of nearly 1,000 folio pages, on Slavery Surprise will the reader hear, that there are two volumes of Impression prevails that Infanticide is abolished and a lateĬelebrated writer 011 India has stated - " No slavery legallyĮxists in the British territories at this moment " with what To this edition is added - 'The present state of InfanticideĪnd Slavery in British India.' Upon these subjects but littleĬorrect information appears to be possessed. Isting establishments to encourage the diffusion of educationĪnd useful knowledge and to advance the general prosperityĪnd happiness of the British empire in India." Surely a Tercourse by land or water to amend the defects in the ex The communication of all suggestions tending to promote anyīranch of national industry to improve the commercial in Has published an abridgement of this pamphlet, cnihlcd, ". * The Coventry Society for the abolition of Human Sacrifice* in India, Pears daily in the papers:- " The Governor General invites Two editions of a pamphlet entitled, " The SuttecJ Cry to In prosecution of this object, he has published These things, and to urge the propriety and facility of their Other cruelties of Hinduism, has, since his return to his nativeĬountry, in 1826, laboured to diffuse information respecting Of the sick and the dead on the banks of the Ganges, - and Is increased by British regulation and support), - the exposure Great Temple of Juggernaut in Orissa (the celebrity of which Her deceased husband, - the miseries of pilgrimage to the Nessed the horrid rite of burning a widow with the body of THE Author, during his residence in India, having wit SOLD BY WAUGH AM) INNF.S, F.niNBl'ROH J AND KF.ENK, Dl'HI.IN, Still little, very little, is done, in comparison with all which is to do."- 11,-ftrr. India, would he left, of their religion, their power, or their civil and military magnificence. "It was painful to mo to think, how few relics, if the Knglish were now expelled fron. INFANTICIDE, BRITISH CONNECTION WITH IDOLATRY Full text of " India's cries to British humanity, relative to infanticide, British connection with idolatry, ghaut murders, suttee, slavery, and colonization in India to which are added, Humane hints for the melioration of the state of society in British India"
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