Clip of the Day 9/14/2021
An essay by famed travel writer Frank Carpenter, titled “The Awakening of the Hindus,” published in the Evening Star in 1910:
“Strange Gods and Heathen Devils— The Queer Beliefs of One-Eighth of Mankind— The Sacred Books— The Vedas and the Code of Manu— How Castes Are Changing — The Brahmans and Their Marriages— Among the Fakirs”
I posted some clips from this article — published separately with a different headline in the Omaha in the same year— on my Twitter. You can find the thread along with excerpts here:
