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                    [Illustration: FELIX TIPNIS.]


                            INDIA AND THE

                               INDIANS



                          BY EDWARD F. ELWIN

           OF THE SOCIETY OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, COWLEY

   AUTHOR OF "INDIAN JOTTINGS," "THIRTY-FOUR YEARS IN POONA CITY,"
                    "STORIES OF INDIAN BOYS," ETC.




                          WITH ILLUSTRATIONS







                                LONDON

                  JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W.

                                 1913


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PREFACE


India is really waking up, but she is doing so in her own Indian way.
For some years past it has been one of my daily duties to arouse an
Indian boy, and I know exactly how an Indian wakes. It is a leisurely
process. He slowly stretches his legs and rubs