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The Calcutta Review An Illustrated Monthly (Third Series) December 1933

1933

Both the above tendecies involve a denial of the law of growth of art as well as of other forms of expression from living roots in contemporary life ; and both of them result in the production of unnatural and artificial creations devoid of the vigour and energy of life and out of touch with and unrelated to - the life and ideals of the people belonging to the race from which the artist spring [...] If the traditional dances which are danced by real live Bengali men and women in the rural areas of Bengal have not got the suave " oriental " curve of Manipuri and the mystic nzudras of the kathakiili then the latter must be imported into Bengal to supplant true Bengali dances ! The result is a complete abandonment of all fixed standards and racial traditions and the production of a rootless and [...] They are first the old Revenue records of the Government of Bengal and second the papers of an extremely important case in the Equity Division of the Supreme Court Calcutta in which Rammohun was involved.' Owing to the fact that almost all his properties were implicated in this suit we have in these docments a wealth of detail regarding the sources and the stages of acqui. [...] It is mainly with the help of this find that the following outline of the first phase of Rammohun's career has been reconstructed while the Revenue records have been of invaluable help in filling up the gaps and checing the testimonies of the witnesses in the case. [...] He admitted that after the partition he and Jagamohan Roy remained the joint owners or co-sharers of the Langulpara house that the families of the two brothers lived together under the superintendence and managment of their mother Tarini Devi and that they both paid the expenses of their..mother Tarini Devi and their stepmother Subhadra Devi of their respective families and of the religiou
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Pages
155
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120137
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-i unknown view
Artistic Renaissance in India
211-217 G.S. Dutt view
Anglo-Japanese Rivalry and the Future
218-223 Taraknath Das view
Law in Literature
224-232 Viscount Finlay view
Rammohun Roy: the First Phase
233-256 Brajendranath Banerji view
The Reserve Bank of India Bill 1933
257-264 Benoy Sarkar view
Contemporary Poetry
265-281 Amaranatha Jha view
University Education
282-286 W. S. Urquhart view
Flying Machines in Ancient India
287-298 B. M. Barua view
Young Bengal’s Plea for Science Education Eighty Years Ago
299-310 unknown view
The Island Home of Ravana
311-313 Hemchandra Ray-Chaudhuri view
Miscellany
314-318 unknown view
Reviews and Notices of Books
319-324 unknown view
Gleanings
325-330 unknown view
At Some and Abroad
331-335 unknown view
Ourselves
336-361 unknown view
Backmatter
i-i unknown view

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