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...ocracy for many years to come. It is said that 420 tongues are spoken in India and that at least fifty are written languages. Altho' for many years English has practically been the official language and is taught in all the schools, yet there are twenty four other languages which are spoken by more people than is English! Nothing has demonstrated to my comprehension the immovability of this country like the fact that more than eight millions of people are still adherents of their primitive religion, worshipping stones, snakes, animals &c. The Hindoos I believe with the Jews, the antiquity of their respective faith and the [illegible] of Indians...