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The Journal of the Bihar Research Society

1953

All Tirhoot is much favoured by nature" was the remark of J. Routledge who was sent on an official tour round the district in 1792.1 The population of the nizamat lands in the collectorship of Tirhoot according to an estimate of 1790 was 12 36 308;2 and a similar reckoning for the lakhiraj lands of the district gives 6 08 001 as the number of male and female inhabitants in 1791.3 That is the [...] In 1818 the Collector remarked : With the exception of a very small potion of land immediately to the northward the whole of the district is in the highest possible state of cultivation."' Rice formed the chief agricultural produce of which one-third was locally consumed and the rest sent to Patna for the Calcutta and the western markets.' Wheat and barley were also eported in the same pr [...] The Indian mind in the very early days of human civilization endeavoured to probe into the heart of things and in so doing got at the idea of Onencss in the many the many in the world of senses and thought. [...] It is the representation of the amorous feeling thus improperly kindled that serves as the source of the sentiment of laughter and it is perhaps this that is in the mind of Bharata when he speaks of qT WRITiff:. [...] For example the erotic sentiment ( WiTTU) is connected with the permanent feeling love (Zfff) the pathetic sentiment (TVITTff) is allied to the permanent feeling sorrow (41T) the sentiment of the furious (ftTff) is born of the feeling of fear (WO but laughter (79') is said to be the permanent feeling which gives rise to the comic sentiment (qt-F7VT).
anthropology archaeology
Pages
112
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120007
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-iv K.K. Datta view
Tirhut at the end of the Eighteenth and the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century(1790—1820)(An economic survey based on unpublished records)
365-376 Hari Ghosal view
The Sentiment of Laughter in Sanskrit Poetics
377-409 Satindra Sengupta view
Muni Vairadeva of the Son-Bhandar Jaina Cave-Rajgir
410-412 Umakant Shah view
The Vedic Gana and the Origin of the Post-Vedic Republics
413-426 Ram Sharma view
The Indian Movement of 1857-59 and its Reactions Abroad
427-432 Kalikinkar Datta view
Article
433-456 unknown view
Proceedings of the meeting of the Council of the Bihar Research Society and the K. P. F. Research Institute held on the 1st October 1953 in the Society’s Council room at 5-30 p.m.
457-459 S.V. Sohini view
Proceedings of the meeting of the Council of the Bihar Reserch Society and the K. P. Jayaswal Research Institute 13 December 1953 in the Society’s Council Room at 11 a. m.
460-463 S.V. Sohini view
Select Contents from Journals
464-467 unknown view
Publications of the Bihar Research Society
i-v unknown view

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