Genre:

Introduction; Extract

Publications extracted:

William H Mill

Subjects:

Education, Race, Imperialism, Natural Theology, Superstition

    Introduces an extract detailing the 'the many encouraging appearances, now first presented, of the opening of the native mind in India'. Refers particularly to 'the rise, in different parts of India, of persons, who, on the principles of natural religion only, oppose, in speech and writing, the reigning superstitions of their countrymen, as impious and abominable'.