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Modern Hinduism : Being an Account of the Religion 

 and Life of the Hindus in Northern India. By W. J. 

 WILKINS, of the London Missionary Society, Author of 

 "Hindu Mythology, Vedic and Puranic." Demy 8vo. 

 Price Rs. 8. 



INTRODUCTION. 

 I. EARLY LIFE. 



1. Birth and its Ceremonies. 



2. The Hindu Home. 



3. The Guru and Initiation into 



Hinduism. 



II. HINDU SECTS. 



1. General Changes of Hinduism. 



2. General Remarks on the Hindu 



Sects. 



3. Vedantism or Orthodox Hin- 



duism. 



4. Sects existing in the 14th Cent. 



A.D. 



5. The Vishnava Sects. 



6. The Saivite Sects. 



7. The Saktas, &c. 



8. Miscellaneous Sects. 



9. The Modern Deistic Sects. 



III. CASTE. 



1. General Remarks on Caste. 



2. Caste Distinctions as taught in 



the Scriptures. 



3. History of the Growth of the 



Caste system. 



4. Struggles for Supremacy 



amongst the Castes. 



5. Caste as it exists at the present 



time. 



6. Proportion of People included 



in the chief Castes. 



7. Kulinism. 



IV. WORSHIP. 



1. Private Worship. 



2. Temple Worship. 



3. Religious Festivals. 



4. Pilgrimages : Benares. 



5. Ditto. 



6. Ditto. 



7. Ditto. 



8. Worship. 



KjiliGhdt,Ganga 



Saga, Gaya. 

 Puri. 



Bhuvaenshwara. 

 How sustained and 



objects sought by it. 

 9. Religious ideas common to all 

 Sects expressed in worship. 



V. WOMAN. 



1. Position of Woman as taught 



in the Hindu Scriptures. 



2. Present position. Marriage 



Ceremonies, &c. 



3. Widows. 



4. Sati. 



VI. MORALS. 



1. The Hindus generally. 



2. The Criminal Classes. 



VII. DEATH, SHRADH AND FUTURE 

 JUDGMENT. 



1. Death and its Ceremonies. 



2. The Shradha or Religious Cere- 



monies on behalf of the de- 

 parted. 



3. Judgment after death ; Reward 



and Punishments. 



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