Observations on the mussulmauns of India manners,customs,habits

In the present reprint the text of the original edition of this work has been reproduced without change, even the curious transliterations of the vernacular words and phrases having been preserved. The correct forms of these, so far as they have been ascertained, have been given in the Notes and in the Index-Glossary. I have added an Introduction containing an account of the authoress based on the scanty information available, and I have compiled some notes illustrating questions connected with Islám and Musalmän usages. I have not thought it necessary to give detailed references in the notes, but a list of the works which have been used will be found at the end of the text. As in other volumes of this series, the diacritical marks indicating the variaties of the sound of certain letters in the Arabie and Devanagari alphabets have not been given they are unnecessary for the scholar and serve only to combarrass the general reader.