Footnotes

1.: Some of these, doubtless, are only well-developed dialects. Many other, more imperfect, dialects might be added to this total.
2.: The extensive famines of the last few years have reduced this increase to two and one half per cent. during the last decade.
3.: This subject is treated more fully in later chapters.
4.: The rupee is at present one-third of a dollar.
5.: Nearly all these Buddhists live in Burma which is included in these statistics because it is now politically a part of India.
6.: According to the census of 1901 there were 2,923,349 Christians.
7.: “The Religions of India,” p. 562.
8.: “The Religions of India,” p. 288.
9.: “The Religions of India,” page 83.
10.: Sir John Strachey's “India,” page 311.
11.: I speak vaguely because it is hard to definitely declare what a missionary society is.
12.: The returns for Congregationalists do not include the members of the London Missionary Society Missions,—these being, apparently, included among the “Scattering.”
13.: See Toronto Convention Report of Student Volunteer Movement, p. 378.
14.: Hinduism and Christianity, page 248.
15.: See Dr. Sell's article, “The New Islam,” in Contemporary Review, August, 1893.
16.: “The Higher Hinduism in Relation to Christianity,” page 291. This valuable book has only just been published after my manuscript was written.