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The Calcutta Review an Illustrated Monthly (Third Series) February 1935

1935

If as the writer's own inclinations would lead him to do he should broaden the definition to include one who whether learned in the technical sense or not in either language or literature has as one of his major interests in life the study of the culture of the Oriental peoples and the interpretation of that culture to Western peoples ; one who'inakes the cause of Eastern peoples his own and d [...] As a result of the constant support by the Daily Telegraph of the Turks in the Buseo-Torkish war the Sultan appointed Arnold an officer of the Imperial Order of the Medjide. [...] After his death which occurred in 1904 there was established the Edwin Arnold Memorial Scholarship in University College Oxford to be awarded annually to a "selected candidate for the Indian or other service of the Crown in Eastern lands or to a graduate who undertakes to pursue the study of some Oriental language to the satisfaction of the College." The Secretary of the University 'College wr [...] He not only recites the speeches of all the actors but also repeats verses from the drama illustrating the spirit of the story and adds descriptions necessary to render the action intelligible to the spectators. [...] At the place of cremation the corpse is carried down from the car and placed into the coffin which stands on a two-storeyed chamber and has the figure of a lion in the case of reigning princes a cow in the case of other distinguished persons and is usually a simple square wooden chest in the case of ordinary men although even these somtimes use figures e. g. Gajamina a monster half-ele
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Pages
129
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120137
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-i unknown view
Edwin Arnold—Poet and Orientalist
111-122 Charles Braden view
The Hindu Society in Java and Bali
123-132 R.C. Majumdar view
Indo-European Origin of Sanskrit
133-150 Batakrishna Ghosh view
An all-India Notation for Indian Music
151-177 C. Subrahmanya view
Rabindranath’s Kheya
178-183 Prabraschandra Gohosh view
Indian Science Congress Twenty-Second Session Opening Address
184-186 Freeman Freeman-Thomas view
Address of Welcome
187-189 Syamaprasad Mookerjee view
Miscellany
190-193 unknown view
Reviews and Notices of Books
194-198 unknown view
Abstracts
199-202 unknown view
News and Views
203-212 unknown view
Ourselves
213-234 unknown view
Notification
235-238 unknown view

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