“Hook-Swinging” in India

Abstract

PROM such records as are available it would appear that within comparatively recent times " hook-swinging " was a rite of common occurrence in certain parts of India; but, with the advance of a higher civilization and under the influence, direct and indirect, of British rule, there has not only arisen an increasing reluctance to practise it in the presence of Europeans, but in many places where in former years the ceremony was regularly observed it has now been altogether discontinued, or, as will appear, replaced by a milder form from which all elements of cruelty have dis appeared.But that there are even now villages, and those not necessarily far removed in jungle fastnesses, where the rite is still being carried out in most of its original barbarity, is not open to doubt.

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