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

1935

The large proportion of widows among the higher castes the posponement of marriage or the disparity of the ages of the married couple due to the increase of the bride-price among many castes high orlow on account of economic stress coupled with infant marriage which means more-widows feretell racial suicide. [...] These now threaten a complete swamping of the upper-class Hindusloy the Chamars„khirs Pasis Lodhs Santals Namasudras and Rajbangsis and by the Muslims and yet the upper-class Hindus of the United Provinces who are now being driven to the wall were the torch-bearers of the culture of Aryavarta of Upanishadic mysticism and Buddhism of medieval Smriti and popular Bhakti cult. [...] More than the expansion of marriage groupings and liberal laws of marriage there is the imperative necesity of social political and religious movements which will bridge the gulf between the elite and the depressed between the Haves and the Have-nots so that our political life; in the future may be less embittered by rivalry and softened by the intimacies of social intercourse. [...] The days of Akbar and Aurangzib seem to belong to the present but how much do we know about the life of the average man when the Great Mughals dominated over the whole of India ? How much indeed do we know about the social and economic problems with which leaders of state and of society had to deal ? If such is the case with the history of a period so near to that of our own what can we say of [...] Barani says To the elite at well as to the multitude to he rich the poor the nobles the paupers the scholars the ignorant the gentle the rough the citizens the peasants the warriors the freemen and the slaves he gave the four-cornered cap the miswalc' of purification with his blessings...
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Pages
121
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120137
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-vi unknown view
Understanding the Art of India
1-6 Ananda Coomaraswamy view
The Balance of Castes and Communities in Northern India
7-16 Radhakamal Mukerjee view
Early Indo-Persian Literature and Amir Khusrav
17-27 Anilchandra Banerjee view
The Development of Cultural Relations Between Hindus and Muslims
28-38 Maulana Ziauddin view
The True Causes of Japan’s Trade Expansion and her Services
39-49 Murotaro Senda view
An Aspect of Hindu Social History
50-69 Batuknath Bhattacharya view
In Memoriam Dr. Ganesh Prasad (1876-1935)
70-71 S.C. Bagchi view
The Great Design in the Universe Around Us
72-77 Upendranath Brahmachari view
Indian Architectural Exhibition at Calcutta University
78-79 unknown view
Miscellany
80-82 unknown view
Reviews and Notices of Books
83-92 unknown view
Abstract
93-96 unknown view
News and Views
97-100 unknown view
Ourselves
101-111 unknown view
Notifications
112-115 unknown view

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