All 50 Uses of
Hinduism
in
A Passage to India
- The temple of another creed, Hindu, Christian, or Greek, would have bored him and failed to awaken his sense of beauty.†
Chpt 2
- Elsewhere some Hindus were drumming—he knew they were Hindus, because the rhythm was uncongenial to him,—and others were bewailing a corpse—he knew whose, having certified it in the afternoon.†
Chpt 2
- Elsewhere some Hindus were drumming—he knew they were Hindus, because the rhythm was uncongenial to him,—and others were bewailing a corpse—he knew whose, having certified it in the afternoon.†
Chpt 2
- What did it matter if a few flabby Hindus had preceded him there, and a few chilly English succeeded?†
Chpt 2
- Old Mr. Graysford said No, but young Mr. Sorley, who was advanced, said Yes; he saw no reason why monkeys should not have their collateral share of bliss, and he had sympathetic discussions about them with his Hindu friends.†
Chpt 4
- But then the club moved slowly; it still declared that few Mohammedans and no Hindus would eat at an Englishman's table, and that all Indian ladies were in impenetrable purdah.†
Chpt 7
- The host was inclined to change the subject, but Aziz took it up warmly, and on learning fragments of the delinquents' name pronounced that they were Hindus.†
Chpt 7
- Slack Hindus—they have no idea of society; I know them very well because of a doctor at the hospital.†
Chpt 7
- A Native State, a Hindu State, the wife of a ruler of a Hindu State, may beyond doubt be a most excellent lady, and let it not be for a moment supposed that I suggest anything against the character of Her Highness the Maharani of Mudkul.†
Chpt 8
- A Native State, a Hindu State, the wife of a ruler of a Hindu State, may beyond doubt be a most excellent lady, and let it not be for a moment supposed that I suggest anything against the character of Her Highness the Maharani of Mudkul.†
Chpt 8
- Oh, it is the duty of each and every citizen to shake superstition off, and though I have little experience of Hindu States, and none of this particular one, namely Mudkul (the Ruler, I fancy, has a salute of but eleven guns)— yet I cannot imagine that they have been as successful as British India, where we see reason and orderliness spreading in every direction, like a most healthgiving flood!†
Chpt 8
- One knew what happened next; the tower stuck, a Mohammedan climbed up the pepul and cut the branch off, the Hindus protested, there was a religious riot, and Heaven knew what, with perhaps the troops sent for.†
Chpt 8
- The Mohammedans offered the former, the Hindus insisted on the latter.†
Chpt 8
- The Collector had favoured the Hindus, until he suspected that they had artificially bent the tree nearer the ground.†
Chpt 8
- Oh yes, both Hindus; there we have it; they hang together like flies and keep everything dark.†
Chpt 9
- "All illness proceeds from Hindus," Mr. Haq said.†
Chpt 9
- Hamidullah had called in on his way to a worrying committee of notables, nationalist in tendency, where Hindus, Moslems, two Sikhs, two Parsis, a Jam, and a Native Christian tried to like one another more than came natural to them.†
Chpt 9
- Gentlemen, you will excuse, I have come to enquire by Major Callendar's orders," said the Hindu, nervous of the den of fanatics into which his curiosity had called him.†
Chpt 9
- "Come along, we tire the invalid in either case," said Fielding, and they filed out—four Mohammedans, two Hindus and the Englishman.†
Chpt 9
- Hinduism has scratched and plastered a few rocks, but the shrines are unfrequented, as if pilgrims, who generally seek the extraordinary, had here found too much of it.†
Chpt 12
- The Professor was not a very strict Hindu—he would take tea, fruit, soda-water and sweets, whoever cooked them, and vegetables and rice if cooked by a Brahman; but not meat, not cakes lest they contained eggs, and he would not allow anyone else to eat beef: a slice of beef upon a distant plate would wreck his happiness.†
Chpt 13
- Still, Fielding was an Englishman, and they never do miss trains, and Godbole was a Hindu and did not count, and, soothed by this logic, he grew calmer as the hour of departure approached.†
Chpt 13
- Three will be Europeans, one a Hindu, which must not be forgotten.†
Chpt 13
- I say, 'Yes, Akbar is very wonderful, but half a Hindu; he was not a true Moslem,' which makes Hamidullah cry, 'No more was Babur, he drank wine.'†
Chpt 14
- He then suggested that the lawyer in charge of the case would be a Hindu; the defence would then make a wider appeal.†
Chpt 19
- It concerned a Hindu Rajah who had slain his own sister's son, and the dagger with which he performed the deed remained clamped to his hand until in the course of years he came to the Marabar Hills, where he was thirsty and wanted to drink but saw a thirsty cow and ordered the water to be offered to her first, which, when done, "dagger fell from his hand, and to commemorate miracle he built Tank.†
Chpt 19
- Just as the Hindu clerks asked Lakshmi for an increase in pay, so did she implore Jehovah for a favourable verdict.†
Chpt 24
- It was revolting to hear his mother travestied into Esmiss Esmoor, a Hindu goddess.†
Chpt 24
- I will write him the best I can, but I thought your magazine was for Hindus.†
Chpt 30
- "It is not for Hindus, but Indians generally," he said timidly.†
Chpt 30
- His poem was again about the decay of Islam and the brevity of love; as sad and sweet as he could contrive, but not nourished by personal experience, and of no interest to these excellent Hindus.†
Chpt 30
- As it is, we must try to appreciate these quaint Hindus.†
Chpt 30
- Something that the Hindus have perhaps found.†
Chpt 31
- Hindus are unable to sing.†
Chpt 31
- For an instant he recalled his wife, and, as happens when a memory is intense, the past became the future, and he saw her with him in a quiet Hindu jungle native state, far away from foreigners.†
Chpt 31
- Hindus sat on either side of the carpet where they could find room, or overflowed into the adjoining corridors and the courtyard—Hindus, Hindus only, mild-featured men, mostly villagers, for whom anything outside their villages passed in a dream.†
Chpt 33
- Hindus sat on either side of the carpet where they could find room, or overflowed into the adjoining corridors and the courtyard—Hindus, Hindus only, mild-featured men, mostly villagers, for whom anything outside their villages passed in a dream.†
Chpt 33
- Hindus sat on either side of the carpet where they could find room, or overflowed into the adjoining corridors and the courtyard—Hindus, Hindus only, mild-featured men, mostly villagers, for whom anything outside their villages passed in a dream.†
Chpt 33
- They sang not even to the God who confronted them, but to a saint; they did not one thing which the nonHindu would feel dramatically correct; this approaching triumph of India was a muddle (as we call it), a frustration of reason and form.†
Chpt 33
- His Hindu physician, who had accompanied him to the shrine, briefly reported his symptoms.†
Chpt 33
- Hinduism, so solid from a distance, is riven into sects and clans, which radiate and join, and change their names according to the aspect from which they are approached.
Chpt 34 *Hinduism = the third most common religion; polytheistic (many gods) with most adherents in India
- Nominally under a Hindu doctor, he was really chief medicine man to the court.†
Chpt 34
- Life passed pleasantly, the climate was healthy so that the children could be with him all the year round, and he had married again—not exactly a marriage, but he liked to regard it as one—and he read his Persian, wrote his poetry, had his horse, and sometimes got some shikar while the good Hindus looked the other way.†
Chpt 34
- The Rajah did not take the hint, but replied that Hindus were less exclusive than formerly, thanks to the enlightened commands of the Viceroy, and he felt it his duty to move with the times.†
Chpt 34
- Consequently there are two shrines to him today—that of the Head above, and that of the Body below—and they are worshipped by the few Mohammedans who live near, and by Hindus also.†
Chpt 35
- The Hindu physician, the Private Secretary, and a confidential servant remained with the corpse, while Aziz had assumed the duty of being seen in public, and misleading people He had liked the ruler very much, and might not prosper under his successor, yet he could not worry over such problems yet, for he was involved in the illusion he helped to create.†
Chpt 35
- There were two claimants to the throne, unfortunately, who were in the palace now and suspected what had happened, yet they made no trouble, because religion is a living force to the Hindus, and can at certain moments fling down everything that is petty and temporary in their natures.†
Chpt 36
- "Ah, you might make me late "—meaning that the touch of a non-Hindu would necessitate another bath; the words were spoken without moral heat.†
Chpt 36
- The sight endeared the Hindus by comparison, and looking back at the milk-white hump of the palace, he hoped that they would enjoy carrying their idol about, for at all events it did not pry into other people's lives.†
Chpt 36
- Whatever had happened had happened, and while the intruders picked themselves up, the crowds of Hindus began a desultory move back into the town.†
Chpt 36
Definition:
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(Hinduism) the third most common religion; polytheistic (many gods) with most adherents in Indiaeditor's notes: Only Christianity and Islam have more followers than Hinduism.