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The Calcutta Review an Illustrated Monthly (Third Series) July 1930

1930

The smaller the crop the cultivator extracts from the soil the higher the interest he has to pay to the moneylender ; the larger the commission insisted on by the middleman the less he has available for the purchase of manfactures. [...] As a means of reducing the percentage of the population dependent on agriculture the development of urban industries in India cannot be regarded very hopefully and for two reasons; (1) as already noted the negligible purchasing power of the average cultivator; (2) the effect of the methods of mass prodution and rationalisation in reducing the number of industrial workers required to produce a [...] Of the Old World Romances the most outstanding are The Masque of the Red Death The Cask of Amontillado and The Assignation. [...] It is no wonder that the fable which the demon told in the shadow of the tomb " haunted him constantly: " Now there are strange tales in the volumes of the Magi—in the iron bound melancholy volumes of the Magi—glorious histories of the Heaven and of Earth and of the mighty Sea—and of the' Genii that overruled the sea and the earth and the lofty heaven; there was much lore too in the sayin[...] - The idea had also been impressed upon the minds of the generality of the people that all the human institutions that then existed were meant only for the oppression of the weak and the poor.
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Pages
151
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120137
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-ix unknown view
Economic Tendencies in India
1-9 R.W. Brock view
The Arabesque and Grotesque Stories of Edgar Allan Poe
10-19 Louise Nelson view
A Chapter from the French Revolution
20-28 Debendra Sen view
History of Taxation of Salt Under the Rule of the East India Company
29-34 Parimal Ray view
India’s Political Crisis
35-40 Taraknath Das view
Chaucer’s Experiments with Story Sequences in the Monk’s Tale the Legend of Good Women and the Canterbury Tales
41-43 Louise Nelson view
The Life and Works of Frederick Delius
44-48 Leland Berry view
Prose or Poetry ?
49-50 Leland Berry view
A New Outlook on Education
51-57 Bhupendra Sarkar view
Thoughts on Progress
58-64 Benimadhab Barua view
Manipulation and Antiquity of Jatakas
65-84 Gokuldas De view
Bankers Bank for India
85-89 O.S. Krishnamoorthy view
Nepal’s Relations with the Outer World
90-101 Jayanta Das Gupta view
Robert Bridges
102-133 Jaygopal Banerjee view
Reviews
134-139 unknown view
Ourselves
140-142 unknown view

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