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Re: This is how I described the act of Suttee in Phileas's Blog
From: Garmt de Vries-Uiterweerd <garmtdevries~at~gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 10:37:32 +0100
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~gilead.org.il>
2009/12/7 Tom McCormick <tom.amity~at~yahoo.com>:
> Is it true that Verne makes the raja a brahmin? If so, that's one more
> inaccuracy.
No, the Rajah is not a Brahmin. There are a couple of Brahmins in the
funeral procession, but the Rajah himself is never described as such.
Verne does speak, on one or two occasions, of "la religion
brahmaniques", which is of course somewhat inaccurate.
Garmt.
Received on Tue 08 Dec 2009 - 11:37:46 IST
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