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Calcutta University Readership Lectures. Indianism and its Expansion

1942

This applies to all the predecessors of the Musalmans, except that the dominions of the Sakas embraced during a considerable period some portion of the Deccan ; and in the case of the Musalmans, even, it applies to all the predecessors of !AM-ud-Din. [...] In regard to the forest settlements we may find analogies not only in the subsequent organization of southern India, which is the theme of the Riimiiyapa, but also in such modern developments as the backwoods settlements which constituted the early progress of the Europeans in America and in the present day penetration of the hill tracts of Travancore. [...] As regard: grammatical matters, the phonetical observation and classification, so exact and scientific, the etymological analysis (as shown in the mature work of in !otitrast to the tendencious or popular caprices of the Yriska exegotics), and the acute and just definitions of the import of forms and syntactical usage, are not more admirable than the sound general views of the psychology and philo [...] the pathos of the stories of Sunahgepa, Naciketas and of several boy students in the MalI-Bhärata the pathos, again, of some episodes in the Mand-Bhärata, those for instance of Damayanti, Savitri and Draupadi, and its abundant exploitation of the heroic, the tragic and the horrible ; the heroic and pathetic in the story of Rama and Sita ; the compassion of Buddhism, as exhibited in the Pali canon [...] Considering the stereotyped character of the royal aims al d procedures and the ups and downs of states, void of final result or progress, and remembering the theories of the works on state- policy into which they were fully initiated, we are reminded of the formal struggles of the cities of Italy in the early Middle Ages of Europe ; and thus, rather to our surprise, we find in the sphere of polit
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Pages
113
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100014
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-v F.W. Thomas view
I: Generalities
1-10 unknown view
II : Vedic or Aryan Period
11-22 unknown view
III. The Period of Maturity and Organization
23-39 unknown view
IV : The Vedanta Period
40-54 unknown view
V : Greater India : I. Central Asia
55-70 unknown view
VI : Greater India :2. Tibet
71-85 unknown view
VII: Greater India : 3. China
86-96 unknown view
VIII: Greater India : 4. Further India and Malaysia
97-107 unknown view
Backmatter
i-i unknown view

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