Excerpt from India's Womanhood<br><br>India has been pre-eminently the land of the deified custom. Her eager eyes have been turned toward the past and upon her favorite altars was inscribed her watch word To the ancient gods of my fathers. But she has now joined the rest of the world in eager quest after the new, the untried, the alluring future. Her bark has left its ancient mooring and has entered the troubled current of modern life and ambition.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.