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The Calcutta Review July 1919

1919

Once"276 The Calcutta Review more a governor was installed in nominal subjection to Delhi and we hear of a siege of Gaur by the King of Orissa in 1237 which was defeated by the aid of the governor of Oudh ; but the latter yielding to the lure of the wealthiest province in India turned out the governor of Bengal and made himself independent in 1246. [...] South from this rampart lay the northern suburb of the city and probably the main portion of it in Hindu times to judge by the names still adhering to various partsGauand Pandua 289 of it ; here also is the burning ghat of Sadullapur on the sacred river Bhagirathi the only one it is -said which in the days of the Mussulman rulers was allowed to the Flindus and which is still a place of great s [...] The low heavy piers of the Qadam Rasul the breadth of.tha wall space composed of large blocks of grey stone betwqffiriGazer and Pandua 293 the high and narrow archways of the Adina or Baradwari mosques and the depth of the archways themselves the thickness of the outer walls of domed buildings such as the Eklakhi tomb and the Lattan mosque more than onfourth of the span of the dome all pro [...] The Adina mosque is the largest and incomparably the finest of the buildings and it displays all the strong and the weak points of the Gaur style. [...] The strict interpretation which the NIussulmans put on the prohibition against making the likeness of any living thing accounts of course for the absence of the figures of men and animals of which so much Hindu sculpture is composed but the latter had also their floral designs and the difference both of the motifs and their execution which shows itself in the Mussulman work is difficult to accoun
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Pages
108
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120137
Segment Pages Author Actions
Indian Nationality
253-272 R.N. Gilchrist view
Gaur and Pandua
273-300 A.K. Jameson view
An Enquiry into the Causes of the Perishing of Paper
301-307 J.A. Chapman view
Two Centuries of Growth on the Eastern Side of The Ganges Delta
308-318 W.H. Thompson view
Musical Instruments as a Means of Signalling Civil and Military
319-330 Clement Harris view
The Study of Fiction
331-339 Thakorelal Desai view
The Neglected Science
340-345 P. Faulkner view
Reviews of Books
346-356 unknown view
Acknowledgments
357-360 unknown view

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