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The Indian Review April 1913 A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Discussion of all Topics of Interest

1913

China.—The Chir.ese assign the conjunction of.the Four to the s: cond year and of the Five planets to the tenth year of Tchuen Hio the fifth emperor of the first dynasty whose reign began according to Father Du Halle in 3127 B. C. Therefore the conjunction of the Five (in the masion of Che ") fell in 3117 B. C. Deduct the 15 years added to the Roman calendar in the Middle Ages and this wo [...] A CONQUEROR'S USE OP THE KALIYUGA At the period of Alexander's conquest of Asia the only known Western astronomical observation of a certain date susceptible of being counted backward from the day of computation was the Chaldean solar eclipse of February 26th 747 B. C. afterwards changed in the Calendar of Babylon to the winter solstice of B. C. 748. [...] The antiquity and universal adoption of the Kaliyuga prove more cogently than any argument the great debt that civilisation owes to India. It is from that ample and venerable domain and not from the narrow valleys of the Jordan or the Nile that astronomical science took its birth and whence it made its flight until it spread over the rest of the earth lifting it to a knowledge of the Eternal [...] No attempt was made to check the rack-renting powers of the Zamindars ; and it was not till 1359 that the first attempt was made by the Act X of that year to help the tenants and to arrest the ruin of the Bengali peasantry. [...] His idea was " that a missionary must be one of the companions and equals of the people to whom he is sent " and so he went into the intrior of the country to Nnddea and Malda to till the ground among the Bengali peasants of the former capital of Bengal.
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The Kaliyuga
281-288 Alex Mar view
Coloured Races in the Empire
288-294 Annie Besant view
India in the Days of William Carey
294-296 K.C. Chetterji view
Revenue Appeals
297-298 Dewan Bahadur, K. Rao view
The Causes of Muslim Degeneration
298-302 Ferozuddin Murad view
Panchadas
302-303 unknown view
The Arya Samaj its Activities in the Punjab
304-305 Lal Gupta view
Education in India
305-320 unknown view
The Antarctic Tragedy
320-323 unknown view
The Madras Presidency and imperial Finance
324-326 T.V. Aiyar view
Natiye States and Economic Progress
326-327 J.B. Pennington view
Journalistic Section
327-i unknown view
Current Events
329-331 Rajduari view
The World of Books
331-335 unknown view
Diary of the Month March-April 1913
335-336 unknown view
Topics from Periodicals
337-340 unknown view
Essentials of Hinduism
340-344 unknown view
Questions of Importance
345-347 P.C. Roy view
Utterances of the Day
347-350 Shafi view
Indiana Outside India
351-i unknown view
Feudatory India
353-355 unknown view
Industrial and Commercial Section
355-358 unknown view
Agricultural Section
359-360 unknown view
Educational
361-361 unknown view
Literary
362-362 unknown view
Legal
363-363 unknown view
Medical
364-364 unknown view
Science
365-365 unknown view
Personal
366-366 unknown view
Political
367-367 unknown view
General
368-369 unknown view