Village Work in India

Excerpt from Village Work in India: Pen Pictures From a Missionary's Experience While the common Hindi words, the geographical and most of the historical names have been left unmarked and given their English spelling, most of the vernacular terms have been italicised and are to be pronounced according to the following rules: a has the sound of a in woman. has the sound of a in father. e has the vowel sound in grey. i has the sound of i in pin. f has the sound of i in intrigue. o has the sound of o in bone. u has the sound of u in bull. u has the sound of u in rural. ai has the vowel sound in briar. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.