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BEAST AND MAN

IN INDIA

A POPULAR SKETCH OF INDIAN ANIMALS
IN THEIR RELATIONS WITH
THE PEOPLE

BY

JOHN LOCKWOOD KIPLING, C.I.E.

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS

London

MACMILLAN AND CO., Limited

NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

1904

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"I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained
I stand and look at them long and long.
They do not sweat and whine about their condition,
They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins,
They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God,
Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things."

Walt Whitman.

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TO THE OTHER THREE

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CONTENTS

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ILLUSTRATIONS

Caligraphic Tiger	Munshi Sher Muhammad	Dedication
PAGE
Bird Scaring	J. L. Kipling
Initial (a Punjab Window)	Amir Bakhsh
The Parrot's Cage	J. L. Kipling
A Performing Parrot	do
A Bird-singing Match (Delhi Artisans)	do
The Familiar Crow	do
Calf and Crows	do
Terra-cotta Seed and Water Trough (from a Punjab Village Mosque)
Unhooded	F. H. Andrews
Monkey God (from an Indian Lithograph)
Langurs at Home	J. L. Kipling
Young Monkeys at Play	do.
Initial Letter (Asses in a City Alley)	do.
The Potter and his Donkey	do.
A Hindu Sacrificial Knife	Munshi Sher Muhammad
A Domestic Sacrifice (Muhammadan)	J. L. Kipling
On the Dusty Highway	do.
Milch Goats	do.
A Guilty Goat	do.
The Goat-skin Water-bag (Mashk)	J. L. Kipling
Bhisti, or Water-carrier	do.
A Sporting Man	do.
A Bombay Milk Woman	do.
Krishna adored by the Gopis (from an Indian Picture)
Krishna drives the Cattle Home (from an Indian Picture)
Punjab Baili (Springless Ox-cart)	J. L. Kipling
Comparative Sizes of the Largest and Smallest Breeds of Indian Oxen	J. L. Kipling
The Bombay Rekla	do.
Cow and Calf	do.
At Sunset	do.
Ploughing	do.
In Time of Drought	do.
In a Good Season	do.
The Oilman's Ox	do.
The Persian Wheel	do.
Shoeing an Ox	do.
Oopla (Cow-dung Fuel)	do.
Going to Work (Punjab)	do.
A Rustic Krishna	do.
Buffaloes	do.
Maheswar fighting Kali (from an Indian Lithograph)
Waiting for the Wazir	J. L. Kipling
In Training	do.
Indian "Thorn Bits"	Munshi Sher Muhammad
A Processional Horse	J. L. Kipling
A Raja's Charger (Marwar Breed)	do.
A Raja's Horse (Waziri Breed)	J. L. Kipling
A Money-lender on a Deccan Pony	do.
Bombay Tram-horse wearing Horse-cap	J. Griffiths
Punjab Farmer on a Branded Mare	J. L. Kipling
The Ekka, Northern India	do.
An Indian Farrier	do
A Beggar on Horseback (Hindu Devotee)	do
The Wheels of a Mountain Battery	do
From the Sanchi Tope	do
Gansha (from an ancient Hindu Sculpture)	do.
Shiv or Mahadeo, with the Infant Gansh (from an Indian Lithograph)
If Gansha stood	J. L. Kipling
An Elephant Goad (Ankus)	Munshi Sher Muhammad
Undress	J. L. Kipling
A Painted Elephant	Munshi Sher Muhammad
Waiting for the Raja	J. L. Kipling
In Royal State	do.
Elephant piling Timber (Burmah)	do.
Elephant lifting Teak Logs (Burmah)	do.
Biloch Family on the March	do.
In a Serai (Rest-house)	do.
Rajput Camel-rider's Belt	Munshi Sher Muhammad
Rajput Camel Guns	J. L. Kipling
The Leading Camel of a Kafila (Afghanistan)	do.
A Subaltern's Dog-boy	do.
Outcastes (a Begging Leper and Pariah Dogs) do.
Playfellows	do.
In Floodtime	do.
A Hunting Cheetah	J. L. Kipling
A Restless Bedfellow	do.
A Bear Leader	do.
Performing Monkeys and Goat	do.
A Performing Bull (Madras)	do.
Vishnu reclining on the Serpent (from an Indian Lithograph)
A Snake-Charmer	J. L. Kipling
Initial Letter (Decorative Parrots)	do.
Modern Elephant Sculpture, from the Tomb of Sowai Jai Singh, Maharaja of Jeypore	J. L. Kipling
Borak. Caligraphic Picture Composed of Prayers	Munshi Sher Muhammad
Small Wares in Metal	J. L. Kipling
Birds by an Indian Draughtsman
A Peri on a Camel	Bhai Isur Singh
Krishna on an Elephant	do.
Krishna on a Horse	do.
Nandi or Sacred Bull	J. L. Kipling
Cattle by an unknown Indian Artist
A Punjab Heroine (from an Indian Lithograph)
Antelopes. An Indian Artist's Fantasy
Buffalo Bulls fighting	J. L. Kipling
A Dying Bullock (Finis)	do.

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CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTORY

When, on the 21st March 1890, under the auspices of the Hon. Sir Andrew Scoble, the Legislative Council of India passed an Act (XI. of 1890) for the prevention of cruelty to animals, some surprise was expressed in England that legislation should be necessary for a people who have long been quoted as an example of mercy. It was hinted that Orientals must have learned cruelty, as they have learned drunkenness, from brutal Britons. Those who know India need not be told that this insinuation is groundless, since both vices have for ages been rooted in the life of Eastern as of all the nations under heaven. The general conclusion of cultivated Europe as to the temper of Orientals towards animals is expressed by Mr. Lecky, in a clause of the sentence with which he concludes a survey of a growth of consideration for animals as an element of public morals, in his

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