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About the Book:-It has been suggested to the author of the following pages, to compile a small treatise, which, without professing to be an abridgment of the Hindu Sacred Writings, should convey in a concise form an Epitome of the information that has been obtained with respect to the leading dogmas of the Brahminical Superstition. When we reflect upon certain peculiarities of the Religious Worship practised by the Hindus; on its great antiquity, on the fact, that two thousand years before the Christian era it was, as at the present day, in full force; that it witnessed the rise, decline and fall of the Idolatry of Egypt, and of the great Western Mythology of Greece and Rome; that hitherto it has scarcely yielded in the slightest degree to the adverse influence of the Mohammedan race on the one hand, or to European dictation on the other; and that it exercises, by its system of caste, a powerful control over the manners, customs, costume and social status of the entire Hindu community, it becomes a subject fraught with interest to the every cultivated mind, and offers an affecting and curious example of the power of a hoary and terrible superstitions in degrading and enslaving so large a portion of the human race. This book is an indispensable one in the context of the subject. About the Author:-Edward Sellon was born in 1818 at Brighton, England. He joined the army at age 16 and served in India for ten years, eventually being promoted to captain. In 1844 he married, but finding that she was not as rich as he had been led to believe before the marriage, left her to live in London with his mother at Bruton Street. Here, after two years, his wife rejoined him, but now Sellon was keeping a mistress in another part of town, and had seduced his fourteen-year-old parlour maid, a girl called Emma. In his last years Sellon wrote erotica for the pornographic publisher William Dugdale. These included The New Epicurean (1865) and a memoir entitled The Ups and Downs of Life (1