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The Calcutta Review April 1919

1919

In the 1911 Census the nuber of persons belonging to a certain sect rose to three times the number recorded in the previous Census but Sir Edward Gait explains this by the fact that the sect in question hapened to be mentioned in the instructions to the enumeators as a type of the answer expected under the heading. [...] In the Central Prvinces and Berar one-quarter of the total number of Hindus deny the supremacy of the Brahmans and the authority of the Vedas. [...] The decline of the Mogul Empire favoured its advance so that in the middle of the eighteenth century the ramfications of the Mahratta confederacy covered almost the whole of India. [...] Just as the watchword of Luther was Back to the Bible'' the watchword of the Pundit was " Back to the Vedas." Implicitly contained in this doctrine was the political dotrine of India for the Indians or rather the Hindu Indians. [...] cit.) To accomplish these two things the Pandit regarded as essential —first the reform of Hinduism by the return to the Vedas thus uprooting the accumulated superstition of centuries and the Brahmanical hierarchy and second the extirpation of Christianity and Mohammedanism.
history
Pages
128
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120137
Segment Pages Author Actions
Indian Nationality
125-149 R.N. Gilchrist view
Thirty Months a Prisoner in Turkey
150-159 Sisir Sarbadhikari view
Historical Antecedents of the League of Nations
160-188 K. Zacharia view
The Jute Mill Operatives of Bengal and Welfare Work
189-209 J.C. Kydd view
Religious Experience and History
210-216 Alban Widgery view
Crimes in Ancient India
217-223 Gokulnath Dhar view
Madras Nabobs
224-240 H. Dodwell view
Reviews of Books
241-249 unknown view
Acknowledgments
250-252 unknown view

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