The book Asiatic Studies : Religious And Social was written by author Lyall, Alfred Comyn, Sir, 1835-1911 Here you can read free online of Asiatic Studies : Religious And Social book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Asiatic Studies : Religious And Social a good or bad book?
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It brought a feeling that Christianity, among other things, ought to be tolerated; that a system which allowed native Christians to be punished publicly by canes t for refusing to drag the car of Hindu idols, which taxed them for support of these idols, and which visited them ■with civil disabilities, was, to say the least, an excessive * Grant, "State of Society in Asia," the year 1815. Parliamentary Papers. Tliree hundred f Minutes of Evidence before Select and ten widows were burnt, within t...he Committee, 1832. English dominion, as it then stood, in Chap. X.] CQJTSCIENTIODS SCRUPLES. 367 deference to the opinion of majorities. So in 1832 the Government went so far as to pass a law which protected all persons who should change their religion from loss of property in consequence of that change. The enactment was general, though its special aim was relief to new Christians, yet the Hindus actually protested against it as a manifest breach of the neutrality which the English had been so careful to pro- claim, although it was notorious that the Mahomedans in the days of their ascendency not only bestowed upon their proselytes immunity, but reward.
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