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Identifier: cyclopediauniver1950ridp (find matches)
Title: Cyclopedia universal history : embracing the most complete and recent presentation of the subject in two principal parts or divisions of more than six thousand pages
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history Ethnology World history
Publisher: Boston : Balch Bros.
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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Begum.—Drawn by A. de Neuville. 734 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. the wedded relation and for maternity.The oldest ceremonial required that theman take the woman by the hand andwalk around an altar with her. Perhapsthis still remains the fundamental ideain the nuptial union. The woman aftermarriage remains as she was before, adependent of man. There is here a con-flict between the Old Aryan recognitionof the nobility, if not the equality, ofwoman and the Oriental view whichholds her as a slave, a chattel. TheHindu woman has much more respectand honor than she of China, but is byno means the equal of the man. She isnot wholly secluded in the house, butmay go forth after marriage. In gen-eral, she is treated with respect. Thealmost universal aboriginal usage ofgiving presents to the brides parents bythe husband, as in purchase of her, isstill maintained. It is in evidence thatpolyandry was much in vogue in ancienttimes, and polygamy is now frequent,particularly in those provinces whereIslam

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