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Description: | Plate sixty-nine from the third volume of James Forbes' "Oriental Memoirs". The district and town of Chandod, on the banks of the River Narmada, was also under Forbes'(1749-1819) jurisdiction when he was Collector of Dhaboi. Considered a particularly sacred place to the Hindus of Gujarat, it had 'immense groves of ficus religiosa (Banyan) and ficus indica (Peepul) overshadowing numerous Hindoo Temples and spacious lakes', which 'cast a more than common gloom on this venerated spot...two-thirds of the inhabitants are brahmins and devotees of various descriptions'. Forbes 'lived near four years within a few miles of the solemn graves where those voluptuous devotees pass thier lives with the ramjannees, or dancing girls...'. | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Publisher: | Cochrane & Co. | Rights holder: | British Library | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | Forbes,James | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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