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The Indian Review March 1919. a Monthly Periodical devoted to the discussion of all topics of Interest

1919

The rise and fall of great dynasties and the ebb and flow of the great waves of religious and political thought the greatness of certain epochs and the stagnation and retrogrestion of others have been treated as if capable of explanation without much reference to the laws of evolution of thought and action which ply/ so.important a part in the shap-. ing of the destinies of nations. [...] But can it be said that the same is not true of the Awn settlers of India during several centuries ? The hymns of the Rig Veda winch present a faithful picture of the lives and aspirations of the Aryav conquerors of India abound in expressions of the joy of life and devotion to the sacred land of India. [...] As has been well observed the philosophy of Plato centres round " the Supreme Goodness by the light of which all the processes of the natural world all the functions of man on the State are to be interpreted." It is to the speclation of later philosophers that we have to aELP~ute the tendency to glory in the insigraifcance.of mad and to view with rapture the propect of self loss in the [...] The Agnihotra the study of the Vedas the bamboo staff and orange robes of the Sanyasis the sacred ashes and other stock in trade of the sanctimonious hypocrites are but means of livelihood for helpless fools. [...] It is -necessary to bear in mind these influences and speculations to appreciate the role that Buddha played in the history of thought and to appreciate his influence on the history of Hinduism It is no doubt true that he represented the extreme part of the reaction against the ritualism of the Vedas and the Purva Mimamsa but that was only one phase of his teachings.
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Aryan Rule in India
153-160 Justice Sastri view
India and Imperial Preference
161-166 Brij Narain view
The Indian Raiyat
166-168 Daniel Hamilton view
Sedition and Anarchism in India
169-176 S.C. Ray view
The Extinction of the Liquor Traffic in America
177-180 Nihal Singh view
From Vienna to Paris-1815 to 1919
180-181 G. Aiyar view
International Reconstruction
182-183 S. Coleman view
Bismark
183-184 K.M. Panikkar view
The Rowlatt Bills and Satyagraha
185-187 unknown view
Lord Willindon on Britain & India
187-189 unknown view
Sir Dames Mrstonߣs Task
190-ii R.W. Brock view
The Late Amir of Afghanistan
193-195 unknown view
“ A Vindication of Aurangazeb ”
195-196 Sadiq Ali view
Sir P. C Ray’s Essays & Discourses
197-197 Suryanarayana view
The Land of Burns
198-200 Michael Macmillan view
Topics from Periodicals
201-208 unknown view
Questions of Importance
209-209 unknown view
Utterances of the Day
210-210 unknown view
Feudatory India
211-211 unknown view
Indians Outside India
212-212 unknown view
Industrial & Commercial Section
213-213 unknown view
Agricultural Selection
214-214 unknown view
Notices of Books
215-215 unknown view
Dairy of the Month
216-216 unknown view
Literary
217-217 unknown view
Educational
218-218 unknown view
Legal
219-219 unknown view
Medical
220-220 unknown view
Science
221-221 unknown view
Personal
222-222 unknown view
Political
223-223 unknown view
General
224-ii unknown view