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082			_a296.7209548 Whi 2nd ed.
100			_a"Whitehead, Henry"
245		0	_a"The Village Gods of South India. 2nd ed, rev. and enlarged"
260			_aDelhi
260			_bSumit Publications
260			_c1976
300			_a175 p.
520			_aThe purpose of this book on the leading forms which religious life has taken in India is to produce really reliable information for the use of all who are seeking the welfare of India. Editor and writers alike desire to work in the spirit of the best modern science, looking only for the truth. But, while doing so and seeking to bring to the interpretation of the systems under review such imagination and sympathy as characterize the best study in the domain of religion to¬day, they believe they are able to shed on their work fresh light drawn from the close religious intercourse which they have each had with the people who live by the faith herein described; and their study of the relevant literature has in every instance been largely supplemented by persistent questioning of those likely to be able to give information.
650			_aWorship
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