When the British began their rule in India the Muslims had been in power for several centuries. Yet their customs were strange to the newcomers and differed also from those of the Mohammedans they had met further west. The new wielders of power, many of them earnest young men straight from England, required some knowledge of the people they were to govern. G.A. Herklots was greatly interested in the customs and religions of India, and began to ...
