They paint their breasts and foreheads with the symbolical figures of Vishnu and Shiva, and dye their ragged hair dark reddish brown.

It is not easy to imagine anything more disgusting and repulsive than these priests.

They wander about all the streets, preaching and doing whatever they fancy; they are, however, far less respected than the martyrs.
One of the gentlemen whose acquaintance I made in Benares, was so obliging as to communicate to me some information as to the relation of the peasants to the government.

The peasant has no landed property.

All the land belongs either to the English government, the East India Company, or the native princes.