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The Calcutta Review An Illustrated Monthly (Third Series) May 1922

1922

As none of the extant plays can be definitely assigned to a date much prior to the beginning of the Christian era and as the fact of a prolonged contact between the Indians and the Greeks in the centuries following the invasion of Alexander is undeniable the idea naturally arose of a possible patterning of the Indian drama on the model of the Greek. [...] The division into Acts the Prologues and Epilogues the method of entrance and exit and the variety of stage-directions the name " Yavanika " as applied to the curtain in front of which the actors played their parts the plot and its manage-' ment the stereotyped characters like the Jester the Rival the Confidante etc. [...] The ltiveda the earliest extant literary monument of the Indo-Aryans contains nearly twenty Saktas or Hymns which are thrown in the form of a monologue or dialogue and although a difference of opinion has always existed as to the exact meaning of some of the hymns or as to the characters to whom some of the passages are to be assigned the verve and the dramatic spirit of the speeches has be [...] The separateness of the Valley that finds a memory in the title India' transferred from the part to the whole that has left a recollection of an age-long division of Sind and Hind in the expression Indies ' and to the nomenclature of the nineteenth century transmitted an inheritance of Persian and Arab that drew from a consciousness of the barrier Indus—this proclaims the influence of the desert a [...] Barbosar had put the kindom of Debal in Persia and made the Indus a tributary of the Euphrates and the second Borgian map had brought the Indus direct south into the Gulf of Cambay in a course parallel to the Ganges; the identity of Cutch and Kathiawar had been confused and of the two an island made and placed in the delta of the Indus.
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Pages
179
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120137
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-187 unknown view
Origin of Indian Drama
188-199 S.K. Belvalkar view
The Ran of Cutch
200-i J. Abbott view
Turkish Reminiscences
207-239 P. Bruhl view
Vengeance is Mine
240-254 Kanaiyalal Munshi view
The Rose of India
255-266 Francis Judd view
A Plea for Banking Legislation in India
267-274 B. Rau view
Three Ladies of Old Japan
275-280 F. Davis view
Prose Style
281-302 Lionel Burrows view
Wounded Vanity or Injured Pride
303-314 S. Bukhsh view
The Legend of Yima
315-322 Kshetresachandra Chattopadhyaya view
Lahore of To—day
323-328 unknown view
Rabindranath’s “Festival”
329-335 Shishir Maitra view
Entomology in India
336-349 Cedric Dover view
Reviews
350-i unknown view
To the Memory of Shakespeare
355-362 unknown view

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