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Allahabad University Studies (Arts & Sciences)

1936

The mention of the marriage-knot (mangal sutra) in the function which alone of all ornaments was left on the person of the widow mounting the funeral pyre as well as the names of the characters suggest that the scene of action of the story is laid in Southern India. [...] His Giaour the first of the series is a fragment of a Turkish tale telling of the loves of Leila a Turkish slave and Giaour a. Venetian youth of the tragic drowing of the former by her master Hassan for this innocent intrigue and of the lover's subsequent embarking on a course of revenge which culminates in the murder of the tyrant. [...] Where the rage of the vulture the love of the turtle Now melt into sorrow now madden to crime ! Know ye the land of the cedar and vine Where the flowers ever blossom the beams ever shine; Where the light wings of Zephyr oppress'd with perfume Was faint o'er the gardens of Gul in her bloom: Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit And the voice of the nightingale never is mute : Wher [...] The rigid etiquette of the Turkish court is faithfully reprodued in the formal " Salam " of the slave when on the entrance of the chief of the pirate gang in the disguise of a dervise he carries the tidings to the Pasha. [...] From the " Camalata of Indra's heaven " and " the pranks of Crishna " we hear him talking in one breath of the loves of Wamak and Ezra the fairy romance of the white-haired Zal and the popular myths of the Fire-worshippers.
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i-v The Vice-Chancellor and the Heads of Departments view
Arts-Section I English
i-299 The Vice-Chancellor and the Heads of Departments view
Science Section I Chemistry
i-188 The Vice-Chancellor and the Heads of Departments view

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