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"It is very striking to see many of our Western inventions now in working order in India. The railway, the telegraph, and the steam-boat are all doing duty there; but there is something strange in their appearance amongst a primitive Asiatic people. When the India of this day is contrasted with what it was only a quarter of a century ago, it is as if a new generation of gods had come into the land. These great wonder-working powers of science and mechanism might, according to Hindoo ideas, be easily converted into deities. The idea of renewed avatars is a great principle of the Buddhist and Brahminical religions. The old gods have seen their day-they are used up, and must give place to another birth; and here is the new race of powers, beginning their rule, one may truly say, with an iron hand. Amongst these iron divinities which have so lately appeared is a very large one, lately to be seen at Bombay. It is furnished with heavy wheels, to crush whatever comes under it. This is its peculiar character in outward aspect, so that Juggernauth naturally comes to mind. The locomotive may be regarded as a new road roller incarnation of that deity; but in this new birth of the god the crushing power, instead of taking the lives of fanatics, is devoted to a useful purpose. The Chinese have a proverb that "The smoother of a road is a benefactor of men." That beneficent operation is the attribute of this new Juggernauth. When he was first set at work, in November, 1875, smoothing the way for the entrance of the Prince of Wales, a crowd of Brahmins, Mohammedans, Parsees, and all the wide variety of creeds to be found in Bombay, would look on at the huge monster with curious wonder. There is an expression about these natives, of something like astonishment and fear, which is very closely allied to superstition; and it would not be a very difficult matter to get them to do "poojah" to such an object as this steam roller. The old Juggernauth is not quite responsible for all the follies committed by his votaries, and it might be the same with this one. Only make the one false step and commence a foolish worship, and with such a susceptible race, so given to worship a visible object, the new Juggernauth might soon have to answer for wholesale self-immolation. The principle of "renewed incarnations" would again be vindicated. In our Artist's sketch of the scene at Bombay, one of the arches made for the Prince of Wales's visit is seen on the right hand." "A New Juggernauth." Illustrated London News, January 27, 1877, 85.
