An Indian View of English Women.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 405, 25 September 1889, Page 4

An Indian View of English Women.

Mr T. N. Mukhabji, an Indian German who recently visited England, has jusfc published at Calcutta a volume of his impressions. Here ia what he says of English mothers :—: — 4 Give us (he says; mothers like English mothers to bring up our boys, young girls to spur impetuous youths on to noble deeds, wives to steer our manhood through the whirlpools of life, and elegant ladies to refine, revive, and invigorate our rotten society— then India will be regenerated in twenty years' time.' He was a great admirer of English women, but adds — ' 'The defects in her beauty are in her eyes, which might have been a little blacker ; in her hair, which where not golden might have been a little darker, longer, and more abundant ; in her general make, which might have been more sender, supple, and Jithe ; and in the expression of her face, which might have had a little more mildness and less of the rebellious spirit which soems to lurk within/ Mr Mukharji's attempt to define what he calls the caste-system in England is more; curious than instructive. He says — ' 'The English caste system is based on conquest and wealth ; the Indian system is based on piety, learning, and tiade.' This may do for a general definition ; but we are not much the wiser for the 'rough sunv mary'of English castes in Chapter Y. : ' (I) Royal family and the upper circle ofjold nobility ; (2) lower circle of old nobility ; (3) untitled relations of nobility with independent means, recently created nobility, and merchant princes who have formed marriage connections with aristocratic families ; (4) near relations ot nobility without any independent means, waiting for a bequest, or on the look-out for a good marriage '