Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and Its Dependencies, Vol. 28: July to December, 1829 But the degradihg and unciviliaing influences of the Hindi religion m a measly insisted on by the historian bf Brithlr India-as the timing ad. Manent cause of the moral and civil mmwwanm The pub, however, is so vaguely stated, as to be scarcely? Susceptible of direct unifica son; for itisnot built upon hats, them of mwhw, and the correctness or unsoundness of the opinionesdniatedb'y refining M; but by that peremptory and 1111a m' which 111 themsedeacihna weapon to the found in: the Bentham my. So indbcrimina'te is Unwin fare against the religious institutions of the people of India, that it Mb to the, glaring inconsistency ol'accusing those institutions of Mung princi pics that are deemed criminal by other ration, and almost in an swank. 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.