Excerpt from Bits About India This little book is full of interesting facts about India, its people, its customs, its worship, its private and social life - Q the very things that really tell most con cerning a country, and yet the very things which most writers are apt to overlook. The writer has long been a missionary resident in India, and is thoroughly famil iar with the things of which she writes so. 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 Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.