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The Indian Review January 1920 A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Discussion of all Topics of Interest

1920

The true historian is he who so marshals the facts and events of his period as to include both the virtues and vices the lights and the shades of it and sees in them as a whole—in the successes and failures the wisdom and follies of the period—some central purpose working by stages to furt her the cause of humanity overruling evil for good. [...] For instance the chapter on " The Poltical Revival " of the nineteenth century shows how the extension of the franchise in the United KingdonPfirst to the middle classes—the ten pound householder as he is called in hitory—and later on to agriculturists and artisans were the outcome of the religious revival of Wesley's Methodism and the pressing need of relieving the poverty and distress o [...] see _is the man at the plough the woman at the hearth the workman al the plummet—Wordsworth's " Nature's man VAho formed the ventral figure of literature." The lecist of t1 ehanters follow that line of thought and teach.us the lesion that unless the spirit of humanity runs in and waters all the concerns of a people's life there is 13o hope for that people's progress. [...] GOLDEN AGE IS IN FUTURE NOT IN PAST Further all these activities an movements of the nineteenth century which were directed to the realisation of the humanitarian ideals of the eighteenth 'by raising the outlook aiid ulifting the status of the masses and promoting the flow of one life amont then' and the higher classes rested their " golden age" in the future not in the past. [...] The vices of some of the Omrneyacis or Abbassides or those of some of the Turkish Sultans find their paralels in the vices of some of the Roman Ceasars the Roman Popes. the Russian Czars and the rulers of many other European countries besides.
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The Century of Hope
1-6 Narayan Chandavarkar view
Anglo-Indian Education
7-8 J.D. Mathias view
Islam Its Past and Future
9-11 V.B. Mehta view
The Study and Teaching of Economics in India
11-12 John Matthai view
The Debt Cleared
13-15 Rabindranath Tagore view
The Ceylon National Congress
15-ii unknown view
Congress and Conferences
17-32 unknown view
The Medium of Instruction
33-43 unknown view
Hindu Muslim Unity
44-45 Hakim Khan view
Indian Education
46-47 John Woodroofe view
Currencies for the Indian States
47-48 M.V. Kibe view
The All-India Libraries Conference
49-50 unknown view
Indians in British East Africa
51-52 C.F. Andrews view
The Royal Proclamation
52-53 unknown view
The Reform Act
54-56 unknown view
Topics from Periodicals
57-64 unknown view
Questions of Importance
65-65 unknown view
Utterances of the Day
66-66 unknown view
Feudatory India
67-67 unknown view
Indians Outside India
68-68 unknown view
Industrial & Commercial Section
69-69 unknown view
Agricultural Section
70-70 unknown view
Notices of Books
71-71 unknown view
Diary of the Month
72-72 unknown view
Literary
73-73 unknown view
Educational
74-74 unknown view
Legal
75-75 unknown view
Medical
76-76 unknown view
Science
77-77 unknown view
Personal
78-78 unknown view
Political
79-79 unknown view
General
80-80 unknown view