 | Sir William Henry Sleeman - 1844 - 548 pages
...widow from the funeral pile, for such it had been considered, though the man had been a year dead. Thousands surrounded his house, and his court was...all the responsibility upon himself in such a city of Benares, with a population of three hundred thousand people, so prone to popular insurrections,... | |
 | Sir William Henry Sleeman - 1844 - 566 pages
...he could not support his daughter ; and that she had, therefore, better be burned, as her husband-s family would no longer receive her. The uproar was...all the responsibility upon himself in such a city of Benares, with a population of three hundred thousand people, so prone to popular insurrections,... | |
 | William Butler - 1872 - 568 pages
...support his daughter, and that she had, therefore, better be burned, as her husband's family would not receive her. The uproar was quite alarming to a young...felt all the responsibility upon himself in such a fanatical city as Benares, with a population of three hundred thousand people. He long argued the point... | |
 | William Butler - 1873 - 590 pages
...support his daughter, and that she had, therefore, better be burned, as her husband's family would not receive her. The uproar was quite alarming to a young...felt all the responsibility upon himself in such a fanatical city as Benares, with a population of three hundred thousand people. He long argued the point... | |
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Thousands surrounded his house, -and his court was filled with the principal men of the city, imploring him to surrender the woman ; and among the rest was the poor woman's father, who declared that he could not support his daughter ; and that she had,... 