Disturbances in India.
A despatch from Delhi, October flth, says the situation winch ha-s grown out of religious rioting between the Hindoos and JMuhommedaris is extremely critical. Reinforcements havo been t<ont to Delhi from Meorat to help preserve order. The Mahomrnedan*, on the Bth, attacked a email Hindoo temple. The Hindoos defended themselves ami a do.-perate fight ensued, in which the M-ihommtdana triumphed. The victors besmeared the temple with blood, smashed the idoi!«,.»niJ destroyed theoutbuildings, Twenty fclind>iO4 wt,ie badly mounded, Serious riots albo prevailed all over the districts of Jeypoor and Kattywar. The Bengal Government declined to interfere with native religioud customs by mitigating: reforms looking toward the abolishing of iofant marriages und onforced widowhocd. The Government insists that the question of reform in these matters must for the present be left with the Hindoos themselves.
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Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 179, 20 November 1886, Page 4
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136Disturbances in India. Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 179, 20 November 1886, Page 4
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