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The importunate beggars who greet the tourist and the traveller in modern India as they did in medieval India, covered as they are with sores and dressed in rags, are a symbol of this dying land that my friend spoke of, despite the industrial efforts which are being made under the pressures of the new materialism.

-- Notebooks Category 15: The Orient > Chapter 1 : Meetings of East and West > # 269