See also:

• JEAN

JEAN See also:

• ANTOINE, ANDRE (1858- )

ANTOINE See also:

• DUBOIS
• DUBOIS, FRANCOIS CLEMENT THEODORE (1837– )
• DUBOIS, GUILLAUME (1656–1723)
• JEAN ANTOINE DUBOIS (1765-1848)
• DUBOIS, PAUL (1829-1905)
• DUBOIS, PIERRE (c. 1250-c. 1312)

DUBOIS (1765-1848)  , See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French See also:

• CATHOLIC (Gr. KcaBoXuK6s, general, universal)

Catholic missionary in See also:

• INDIA
• INDIA, FRENCH

India, was ordained in the See also:

• DIOCESE (formed on Fr. diocese, in place of the Eng. form diocess—current until the 19th century—from Lat. dioecesis, med. Lat. variant diocesis, from Gr. Swucio•tc, " house-keeping," " administration," &miceas, " to keep house," " to govern ")

diocese of Viviers in 1792, and sailed for India in the same See also:

• YEAR

year under the direction of the See also:

• MISSIONS (Lat. missio, a sending)

Missions Rtrangeres . He was at first attached to the See also:

• PONDICHERRY

Pondicherry See also:

• MISSION

mission, and worked in the See also:

• SOUTHERN

southern districts of the See also:

• PRESENT

present See also:

• MADRAS

Madras See also:

• PRESIDENCY

Presidency . On the fall of See also:

• SERINGAPATAM, or SRIRANGAPATANA

Seringapatam in 1799 he went to See also:

• MYSORE

Mysore to reorganize the See also:

• CHRISTIAN
• CHRISTIAN, WILLIAM (1608-1663)

Christian community that had been shattered by Tipu See also:

• SULTAN (an Arabic word meaning " victorious " or " a ruler," sultat, dominion)

Sultan . Among the benefits which he conferred upon his impoverished See also:

• FLOCK

flock were the See also:

• FOUNDING (from Lat. fundere, to pour)

founding of agricultural colonies and the introduction of See also:

• VACCINATION (from Lat. vacca, a cow)

vaccination as a preventive of smallpox: But his See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• WORK

work was his See also:

• RECORD (Lat. recordari, to recall to mind, from cor, heart or mind)

record of See also:

• HINDU

Hindu See also:

• MANNERS, CHARLES (1857– )

Manners, Customs and Ceremonies . Immediately on his arrival in India he saw that the work of a Christian missionary should be based on a thorough acquaintance with the innermost See also:

• LIFE

life and See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character of the native See also:

• POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population . Accordingly he abjured See also:

• EUROPEAN

European society, adopted the native See also:

• STYLE
• STYLE (from Gr. a-6'1ms, a column; a different word from that used in literature, see below)

style of clothing, and made himself in See also:

• HABIT (through the French from Lat. habitus, from habere, to have, hold, or, in a reflective sense, to be in a certain condition; in many of the English senses the French use habitude, not habit)

habit and See also:

• COSTUME
• COSTUME (through the Fr. costume, from Ital. costume, Late Lat. costuma, a contracted form of Lat. consuetudinem, ace. of consuetudo, custom, habit, manner, &c.)

costume as much like a Hindu as he could . He gained an extraordinary welcome amongst See also:

• PEOPLE

people of all castes and conditions, and is still spoken of in many parts of See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

South India with See also:

• AFFECTION (Lat. ad, and facere, to do something to, sc. a person)

affection and esteem as " the See also:

• PRINCE
• PRINCE (Lat. princeps, from primus capio, " I am the first to take "; Ital. principe, Fr. prince)

prince's son, the noblest of Europeans." Although See also:

• DUBOIS
• DUBOIS, FRANCOIS CLEMENT THEODORE (1837– )
• DUBOIS, GUILLAUME (1656–1723)
• DUBOIS, JEAN ANTOINE (1765-1848)
• DUBOIS, PAUL (1829-1905)
• DUBOIS, PIERRE (c. 1250-c. 1312)

Dubois modestly disclaimed the See also:

• RANK (O.Fr. rant or rent, mod. rang, generally connected with the O.E. and O.H.G. bring, a ring)

rank of an author, his collections were not so much See also:

• DRAWN

drawn from the Hindu sacred books as from his own careful and vivid observations, and it is this, See also:

• UNITED

united to a remarkable prescience, that makes his work so valuable . It is divided into three parts: (1) a See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general view of society in India, and especially of the See also:

• CASTE (through the Fr. from Span. and Port. casta, lineage, Lat. cast us, pure)

caste See also:

• SYSTEM

system; (2) the four states of Brahminical life; (3) See also:

• RELIGION
• RELIGION, FOLKLORE, CUSTOM

religion—feasts, temples, See also:

• OBJECTS

objects of See also:

• WORSHIP (i.e. " worth-ship," O. Eng. weor8scipe)

worship . Not only does the See also:

• ABBE (Serbo-Croatian Rai))

abbe give a shrewd, clear-sighted, candid See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of the manners and customs of the See also:

• HINDUS

Hindus, but he provides a very See also:

• SOUND
• SOUND, THE (Danish Oresund)

sound estimate of the See also:

• BRITISH

British position in India, and makes some eminently just observations on the difficulties of administering the See also:

• EMPIRE

Empire according to Western notions of See also:

• CIVILIZATION

civilization and progress with the limited resources that are available . Dubois's French MS. was See also:

• PURCHASED

purchased for eight thousand rupees by See also:

• LORD
• LORD (O. Eng. hldford, i.e. hldfweard, the warder or keeper of bread, hlIf, loaf; the word is not represented in any other Teutonic language)
• LORD, JOHN (1810-1894)

Lord See also:

• WILLIAM
• WILLIAM (1143-1214)
• WILLIAM (1227-1256)
• WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
• WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
• WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
• WILLIAM, 13TH

William LBentinck for the See also:

• EAST
• EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

East India See also:

• COMPANY

Company in 1807; in 1816 an See also:

• ENGLISH

English See also:

• TRANSLATION

translation was published, and of this edition about 1864 a curtailed reprint was issued . The abbe; however, largely recast his work, and of this revised See also:

• TEXT (Lat. textum, woven fabric, from texere, to weave)

text (now in the India See also:

• OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

Office) an edition with notes was published in 1897 by H . K .

See also:

• BEAUCHAMP
• BEAUCHAMP, ALPHONSE DE

Beauchamp . Dubois See also:

• LEFT

left India in See also:

• JANUARY

January 1823, with a See also:

• SPECIAL

special See also:

• PENSION (Lat. pensio, a payment, from pendere, to weigh, to pay)

pension conferred on him by the East India Company, and on reaching See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris was appointed director of the Missions Rtrangeres, of which he afterwards became See also:

• SUPERIOR

superior (1836-1839) . He translated into French the famous See also:

• BOOK

book of Hindu fables called Panchatantra, and also a work called The Exploits of the Guru Paramarta . Of more See also:

• INTEREST

interest were his Letters on the See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

State of See also:

• CHRISTIANITY

Christianity in India, in which he asserted his See also:

• OPINION (Lat. opinio, from opinari, to think)

opinion that under existing circumstances there was no human possibility of so overcoming the invincible barrier of Brahminical See also:

• PREJUDICE (Lat. praejudicium)

prejudice as to convert the Hindus as a nation to any See also:

• SECT

sect of Christianity . He acknowledged that See also:

• LOW, SETH (1850- )
• LOW, WILL HICOK (1853- )

low castes and outcastes might be converted in large See also:

• NUMBERS, BOOK OF
• NUMBERS, PARTITION OF

numbers, but of the higher castes he wrote: " Should the intercourse between individuals of both nations, by becoming more intimate and more friendly, produce a See also:

• CHANGE (derived through the Fr. from the Late Lat. cambium, cambiare, to barter; the ultimate derivation is probably from the root which appears in the Gr. «a urmu', to bend)

change in the religion and usages of the See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country, it will not be to turn Christians that the3tjwill forsake their own religion, but rather . . . to become See also:

• MERE
• MERE, ADALBERT (1838-1909)

mere atheists." He died in 1848 .