The Calcutta Review An Illustrated Monthly (Third Series) December 1925

The civilization of the Caliphate was pre=eminently the civilization of that mixed race which arose in large towns by the gradual amalgamation of the Arabs and the subject races. [...] In most of the towns that grew up under the shadow of the Caliphate the very worst feature of the art of Government came prominently to light namely extortion of mor ey without any regard Lo the interest or welfare of the people and the squandering of money so extorted in unprofitable directions. [...] This divergence of opinion accounts for the gradual disappearance of Buddhism when the Mohammedan conquerors burst over India and the survival of Jainism LO the present slay."19251 THE PAIN TEMPLE AND JAnnsm 375 Of the doctrine of absolute nudity " preached by the founder of Jainism practically nothing exists. [...] Unfortunately as a matter of fact As I have suggested in the beginning an impasse has been created as the direct result of the gathering and the immediate or the ultimate object of the meeting stands covered up by a curtain of smoke ; and so far as I can see it is beyond any tradition whether of the East or of the West to lift it. [...] 2 The battle of Plessey" had laid the foundations of the British power and though the Nawab Nazim of Bengal was still supposed to be the servant of the Moghul Emperor he was in fact under the control of the Company.