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PREFACE

THIS  book  is  the  Author's  response  to  a  request  that  he  would
prepare  a  book  on  India  which  should  form  a  suitable  gift  for
the  younger  supporters  of  the  London  Missionary  Society.
The  Author's  readers  will  please  bear  in  mind  that  the  difficulty
of  the  task  assigned  him  is  this  :  That  the  religious  thought  and  daily
life  of  India  are  essentially  Oriental,  while  the  readers  of  the  book  will
be  for  the  most  part  boys  and  girls  of  English  Sunday  Schools.
The  reader  will  find  several  chapters  devoted  to  the  affairs  of  three
women,  namely,  Satyawati,  Yashodamma  and  Parvatamma.  The
Author  wishes  to  say  that  they  could  not  have  been  written  had  it  not
been  for  the  material  provided  by  the  work  of  a  famous  Telugu  writer
M.  R.  Ry.  K.  VirasaUngam  Garu,  Rai  Bahadur,  whose  genius  is  so
much  admired  by  Telugu  scholars.  He  hesitates  to  say  more,  lest
Mr.  Virasalingam  Garu  should  repudiate  this  tribute,  for  it  must  be
admitted  that  the  Author  has  taken  considerable  liberties  with  the
original  story.
Siddappa  is  a  character  taken  from  a  Canarese  tract,  written  by
the  late  Rev.  Edwin  Lewis,  the  loss  of  whose  patient,  loving  heart
and  remarkable  linguistic  abilities  so  many  Canarese  people  are  still
lamenting.
