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¹ Cp. Manu, iii, 55–62 ; ix, 25–29. Rabindranath Tagore writes : It is impossible for a woman in a European family to attain to the varied perfections which a woman can in a Hindu home. Our women make our homes smile with sweetness, tenderness, and love. . . We are quite happy with our household goddesses, and they themselves never told of their ‘miserable condition’. Basanta Koomar Roy, Rabindranath Tagore (New York, 1915), pp. 123, 125.