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The Calcutta Review An Illustrated Monthly (Third Series) May & June 1925

1925

With it were found tipical Mousterian flints also a number of shells and remains chiefly of the woolly rhinoceros the horse the reindeer and the bison."' In tile cave of Paviland which opens on the face of a steep limestone cliff about a mile east of Rhossilly on the coast of Gower Wales the earliest discovery of a memjer of the CiO-MIgrion race was made. [...] " One of the skeletons of Briinn found at a depth of 12 feet below the -surface of the loesit was laFishly adorned with tooth-shells perforated stone discs and bone ornaments made from the ribs of the rhinoceros or the mammoth and from the 'teeth of the mammoth ; asselated' with These; was an ivory idol apparently o'`_ a male figure of which only the head the torso and the left arm remain [...] Another practice soon arose that of making a life-size portrait statue of the dead man's head and of placing it by the side of the actual body in the burial chamber.' A further. development. was the making of a statue of the whole body. [...] The protuberance on the bottom'of the urn under this supposition „would signify that it was represextative of the oi Jeri." 2 Writing of the Zoroastrians in the Kianian perida (from c. 2000 B. C. to c. 700 B. C.) M. N. Dhalla says : As the burial' of the dead is classed-among the most inexpiable of sins and as the demolishing of tombs and the digging out of corpses are held to be meritorious [...] They fought for tbe Raja of Vija-anagar against his Muslim enemies they entered the army of the Raja of Canara they served in the artillery of the celebrated Bahadur Shah of Gujr.2t and the Portuguese pirates soon extended their sphere of adtivity to the Bay of Bengal.
history
Pages
258
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120137
Segment Pages Author Actions
Disposal of the Dead
147-170 Maurice Canney view
Historical Records at Goa
171-194 unknown view
Some Currency Lessons of the War
195-218 B. Rau view
The Rapture of Song: Some Aspects of Oriental Poetry
219-232 Gwendoline Goodwin view
Confiscation of German Property in the United -States
233-238 Taraknath Das view
Chemical Research in India
239-254 Priyadranan Ray view
Asoka
255-258 R. Sastry view
The Transforming Power of Love
259-268 Teresa Strickland view
Creation from a Dynamic Point of View
269-287 Bepibehari Niwgee view
The East India Company: Its Origin and Growth
288-304 Harihar Das view
The Spirit of Intolerance-in Portugal
305-312 V. Cunha view
Homicid and its Punishment in Medieval Times
313-321 A.S. Ayyar view
The Moral Value of Religion
322-334 Umeshchandra Bhattacharyya view
Sikkim
335-343 Claude Renny view
Espionage in the Hindu System of Administration
344-351 Hemchandra Ray view
Portents in the Pacific
352-362 Tripurari Chakravarti view
Correspondence
363-366 unknown view
Reflections
367-371 unknown view
Reviews
372-383 unknwon view
Notes of an Academic “Orphan of the Storm”
384-392 unknown view
Ourselvs
393-402 unknown view

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