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Excerpt from The Khond Agency and the Calcutta Review: Being a Reply in Refutation of the Misrepresentations and Distortions of Facts, Contained in Several Articles on Knond Affairs, Published in Nos; IX, XI, XV, and XX, of the Calcutta Review So much has of late been said and written respecting the vari ous, and, in some degree, con icting plans and operations for the abolition of human sacrifice in the Hill Tracts of Orissa, that, but for the sake of truth, and fair dealing, we should not have felt inclined again to request attention to it. We unfeignedly regret the necessity that has been forced upon us; and our regret is the more painful, when we re ect on the character and position of the parties to whom, by the force of truth, we are in this instance constrained to be out and out, most unequivocally, though most reluctantly opposed. Honesty forbids us to write as if we were ignorant of the authorship of the articles in question; and while we lament that such a one should have so far forgotten the rights of his neighbour, we unhesitatingly asseverate that the tale of Goomsoor affairs contained in No. XX of the Calcutta Review, is one elaborate fabrication of exaggerations and misrepresentations. It is painful to write thus; but when the writer boasts of having had all the official documents connected with Goomsoor affairs placed at his disposal, it is difficult to imagine how he could have been ignorant of the true state of affairs - unless indeed the papers relating to the period of which he writes, were withheld from him, and in that case it will be no easy matter to find an apology for his recklessness in writing so magniloquently and confidently, on a subject of which he could know - just nothing. A man, says Luther, obliges himself to babble strange things without know ing what he says, when he undertakes a bad cause we strike our foot against divine truth, and the divine word, when in compliance with the wishes of others, we bustle through a scene in which we have no just cause to appear.' Just so with the eloquent Re. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1849 edition. Excerpt: ...religious significance of those events, -" of the events themselves, and of those that succeeded them, we shall presently have more to say. From paras 17 and 32 of that Report, we extract the following passages: " It was certain that the Government which instantly enforced the least of its serious demands, had expressly resolved not to enforce the suppression of the sacrifice under any circumstances; and that its true object was to tax the Khond country, if its population should evince a disposition to submit, by the relinquishment of the sacrifice upon my simple requisition" " " And finally it was held to be perfectly certain, that if the Boad tribes, after the Earth goddess had given them power to conquer back her victims, should relinquish the sacrifice, before the Government should show unequivocally by its acts, that it required its suppression as the irresistible Agent of the God of Light--which the Rajah and Koorti Vas were responsible that it would never do--until then any thought of the relinquishment of-therite must necessarily involve all in hopeless destruction." ft it "A change of the ancient opinion, with respect to the relation between the God of Light and the Earth goddess, as it affects the lot of man, produced by the experience of the tribes of Goomsoor, enabled the sacrificing tribes of Boad to relinquish the sacrifice, in obedience to the command of the Government, regarded as the expression of the will of the former power. They afterwards received the conviction from Koorti Vas and the Rajah that such a command had not in reality been, and would never be, imposed upon them; and that command being indispensable to their hopes of justification to the Earth Goddess, and of...