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The Calcutta Review An Illustrated Monthly (Third Series) August 1928

1928

In January 1871 I became a " Mofussilite " on being transferred to the headquarters of a district on the Northern hank of the Padma which is the main stream of the Ganges although it lacks the sanctity attaching to the Hughli a minor branch of the mighty river. [...] So far no one had the courage to say that the attempt to impart the results of the progress of the most progressive century of history in the evening of five years is a tragic farce.- It has already been noted that the whole course is designed on the assumption that every student will go right through it and if he does not is to be regarded as a total failure. [...] The Principal's annual reports contain imposing figures`describing the breadth of the stream and the complexity of the 'Machine and much modest pride in the smoothness of its working. [...] The occasional teachers who comerin to tlfe institution once or twice a week at the moment the class starts and bolt when their hour is up know nothing of each other or of the other classes taken by the student in the same and other years of the course ; except what is to be gleaned from the prospects of which they probably read only the syllabus of their own classes and interpret it accordin [...] In fact the present Anglo-Persian relations are far from cordial because of the British support to Iraq_ against Persia in the controversy between the two latter A3tatea:': regardilig1928] GREAT BRITAIN IN THE MIDDLE EAST 169 the right of Persian citizens in Iraq and the question of the rights over Anglo-Persian Oil.
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Pages
166
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120137
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-i unknown view
Rural Bengal in the Seventies
141-148 Francis Skrine view
Technical Education in England
149-166 L.D. Coueslant view
Great Britain in the Middle East
167-170 Taraknath Das view
The Church Invisible
171-190 Saroj Das view
Second Chambers
191-220 Naresh Ray view
W. B. Yeats
221-240 Jaygopal Banerjee view
A Pecularity in the Imagery in Dr. Rabindranath Tagore’s Poems
241-280 Sarasi Sarkar view
Kristodas Pal Death Anniversary
281-290 unknown view
Reviews
291-i unknown view
Ourselves
295-304 unknown view

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