The Music of Hindostan c8.7

c8.7

Lastly, he is like Macaulay’s Puritan, the man of a book. That he believes in his *Śāstras* may be argued from the surprising number of cases in which he is prepared to undergo inconvenience and unpleasantness in deference to them. That, further, he believes them may be seen from the way in which the typically Indian mind turns, courteously but peremptorily, from any attempt to impugn them.