Identifier: indiadailylifein00grif (find matches)
Title: India and daily life in Bengal
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Griffin, Z. F. (Zebina Flavius), 1844-1938
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Publisher: Philadelphia, Boston (etc.) American Baptist publication Society
Contributing Library: Mugar Memorial Library, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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The boy who herds cattle Occupations 131 brickmason in the country districts is from eight to ten cents a day, and he boards himself. The making of pottery is an important industry. Water is brought in earthen jars, people cook in them and use them in various other ways. The material is coarse and the construction rude, still they answer their purpose. These craftsmen, like all others, sit on their heels to do their work. A great deal of this pottery is wasted, and caste is accountable for part of it. Many of the pilgrims buy a little half-cent or quarter-cent earthen dish to cook their rice in, and after dinner either throw it down and break it, or leave it by the tree or rest-house where they were. We might think that the next man who came along and wanted to boil his rice would pick up one of the dishes and wash it and use it. But he does not. He doesn't know what low-caste man may have used it, so he proceeds to buy one for himself. In this way millions of earthen jars are destroyed.

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