Chapter XIV

Calcutta, the City of the Black Venus, Kali.--The River Hoogley.--Cremation Towers.--Chowringee, the Fashionable Suburb of Calcutta.--The Black Hole.--Battles of Plassey and Assaye.--The Brahmo-Somaj.--Temple of Kali.--Feast of Juggurnath.--Benares and the Taj Mahal 303

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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THE TAJ MAHAL FROM THE RIVER, Frontispiece

BANYAN TREE, 36

CAVES OF ELEPHANTA, 53

NATIVE SNAKE CHARMERS, 66

A PARSEE LADY, 106

BOMBAY. UNIVERSITY AND ESPLANADE, 128

BUDDHIST PRIEST PREACHING AT THE DOOR OF A TEMPLE, 161

BULLOCK CART, 208

TOMB OF RAHBEA DHOORANE, AT AURANGABÂD, 250

ROCK CUT TEMPLES OF ELLORA, 270

NATIVE PASSENGER BOAT ON THE HOOGLY, 302

THE MUNIKURNIKA GHAT, ONE OF THE BURNING GHATS OF BENARES, 322