INDIA AND HER PEOPLES BY F. DEAVILLE WALKER PREFACE THIS book has been written, at the request of the United Council for Missionary Education, for a special purpose. For some years thousands of teachers and workers among young people have been using the publications of the United Council as material for missionary lessons Talks, Yarns Heroines, Story Lessons and the textbooks prepared specially for missionary Study Circles, All these books deal directly with missionary work and opportunity. The need has now arisen for a new series of books dealing, not with missions, but with the countries in which missionaries work and with the peoples to whom they seek to present the Gospel message, This little volume therefore is the first of a new series others will follow dealing with China, Africa and other lands, The book seeks to give such information as will create in the mind of the teacher a picture of India and her peoples. It aims at a vivid, picturesque presentation, ef some of the outstanding facts of Indian life, and there may be others besides teachers who will find it useful as an introductory study. The writer was asked to keep specially in mind those readers who are studying India for the first time so India and her Peoples assumes no prelirainary knowledge of the subject, The material is drawn very largely from the authors personal ex periences and very extensive memoranda made during a yooomile tour through India in 1920-21. Every possible opportunity has been taken to test the accuracy