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Excerpt from Sun-Babies: Studies in the Child-Life of IndiaThis happened every morning after breakfast, with the certainty, if the unpunctuality, of the sun rise. The sons of sloth, waiting for audience with the Fount of Wisdom were many and various - the praise and prayer of a daily liturgy.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproducti...

Excerpt from Sun-Babies: Studies in ColourAn English visitor to Kashmir was stepping one day into the little paddle-boat which accompanies every house-boat on the Kash miri river, while this knight of the ceremonies stood at attention, the cushions in their usual place.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important hist...

Excerpt from Indian Tales of the Great Ones Among Men, Women, and Bird-PeopleThe brothers lived together on a crag of the mountains called the Home of Snow, which stretch across the north-east boundary of India.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technolo...

Excerpt from Sun-Babies: Studies in the Child-Life of India The Presence said never a word, just stood there regarding him, a slow smile creeping to the corners of his mouth. The image looked up in the silence for one brief moment, and then. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten...

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Excerpt from Indian Tales of the Great Ones Among Men, Women, and Bird-PeopleThe brothers lived together on a crag of the mountains called the Home of Snow, which stretch across the north-east boundary of India.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technolo...

Excerpt from Between the Twilights: Being Studies of Indian, Women by One of Themselves In the language of the Zenana there are two twilights, "when the Sun drops into the sea, " and "when he splashes up stars for spray, "... the Union, that is, of Earth and Sun, and, again, of Light and Darkness. And the space between is the time of times in these sun-wearied plains in which I dwell. One sees the world in a gentle haze of reminiscence - rem...

Excerpt from Shubala: A Child-Mother Shubala was ten years old when the tragedy happened, and you also would call it a tragedy, if you had known Shubala as I had done since she was a baby, and had tried as I had done to make for her something of the happy childhood of play which is the lot of my English Baby-friends across the Seas. The tragedy was marriage-which, said her mother, could not really, no not even for love of me, be postponed a ...

Excerpt from Sun-Babies: Studies in Colour My firstest real baby friend was a Moon-baby. He was English, he was adorable, and I began to know him very soon after the fairies brought him dancing to the Earth on a silver-blue Moon-ray. A little pensive in repose, his dear face was, when he smiled, the gladness of a spring meadow of golden cowslips. In my heart I treasure many memories... Geoffrey coming in from his walk with a half-eaten ging...

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.