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The Calcutta Review an Illustrated Monthly (Third Series) September 1933

1933

Frorq a comparison of the drama of Richard Ii and history we find that Shakespeare kept close to accepted facts as regitras the action of the drama and the relationships of the chief charaters. [...] II Now since the critical degradatiOn of Richard II is coplementarto the exaltation of his rival; the usurping Bolinbroke the question arises whether the misinterpretation of the character of the firs has not as complement an equal misintepretation of the character of the second. [...] ' Mirat-i-Ahmadi suggests that the theologians to9t the initiative in the waiter and represented to Aurangzeb the anomaly qf the non-believer: being exempted from the pament of the Jizys under a king of Aurangzeb's piety."314 THE CALCUTTA REVIEW [si:r. [...] The appointment of the Amin of the Jizya for the Ar.my mentioned in the Daily Bulletin' of the imperial camp dated July'12 1702 can be explained only on the assumption that the Hindus in the Imperial army paid the Jizya. [...] At least one of the Awing aOcompanyiug the emperor in 1702 was a Mansibdar of three hundred horse.° A mins of 200 horse are also mentioned while the highest place occupied comes up to the commander of six hundred horse only.' Maasir-i-Alamgiri as noted by Sarkar mentions the appointment of an Amin supervising the work of all the provinces in the Deccan.° As we have already seen the work of thes
history
Pages
115
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120137
Segment Pages Author Actions
An Address on Hindu Culture
291-299 D.R. Bhandarkar view
Richard II and Bolingbroke some Critical Estimate Challenged
300-311 James Cousins view
Imposition and Collection of Jizya under Aurangzeb
312-321 Ram Sharma view
Generalities and their Application
322-327 Humayun Kabir view
The Northern Gate of India
328-332 Fairlie Smith view
The Indian Sugar Industry what the Railways can do
333-341 Haridas Ghosh view
Some Considerations on a Reserve Bank for India
342-349 Siddhanath Sen view
Impressions of Spain
350-353 Raphael Philipson view
Chemical Education in Germany
354-355 Chittaranjan Barat view
Some Great Mathematicians of the Nineteenth Century
356-359 A. Schelvis view
Reviews and Notices
360-369 unknown view
Miscellany
370-374 unknown view
Gleanings from Periodicals
375-384 unknown view
At Home and Abroad
385-392 unknown view
Ourselves
393-405 unknown view

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