Our Little Hindu Cousin: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Our Little Hindu Cousin, credited to Blanche McManus, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Our Little Hindu Cousin, by Blanche McManus. This book is one of a series that aims at describing other cultures to children in an entertaining way that honors the culture, educates the child and keeps their minds open to the possibility of other people living wonderful lives in far off places. "Our little cousins of Hindustan are charming little people, even though their manners and customs and their religion are so very different from our own. India is a big country, and there are many different races of people living within its borders, the two principal ones being the Mohammedans and the Hindus. The Mohammedans number about sixty millions and there are about a hundred and eighty millions of Hindus, who are by far the superior race. The intelligence of the Hindus is of a very high order, but, like all Eastern races, they have many superstitions. Their attention to their food and drink and personal cleanliness is remarkable, and, though their customs in this respect are peculiar, they follow a healthful and sanitary manner of living which might well be practised by Western folk." (Summary from the preface)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Our Little Hindu Cousin
• Author credits: Blanche McManus
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 8
• Listed recording duration: 1:37:24

Catalogue topics

• children
• hindu
• cousin

Track guide

1. 0 - Preface — 2:17
2. 1 - Chola at Home — 15:47
3. 2 - A Day in the Bazaar — 16:45
4. 3 - The Children's Holiday — 12:24
5. 4 - The Children Travel in the Big Ox-wagon — 12:58
6. 5 - The Children See Benares and Go Home for a Wedding — 13:51
7. 6 - The Little Sahib Sees the Big Elephants — 12:59
8. 7 - Chola Goes on a Tiger Hunt — 10:23

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