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what must Brahma, Shiva, and Vishnu have thought of this India, now 'Britannicized', when some steamboat passed on the Ganges: neighing, churning up the sacred waters, and frightening the seagulls skimming over the surface, the tortoises swarming over its banks, and the devout stretched out ...