Writing from South India, where he preached in Tamil, the missionary doctor John Scudder addresses American children directly about the people he lives among: their dress, houses, food and greetings, marriage and funeral customs, castes, temples, festivals and processions of idols. His purpose is to raise young missionaries, and his account of Hinduism is openly hostile, the view of an 1840s evangelical rather than a fair description.
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