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The Calcutta Review An Illustrated Monthly (Third Series) October 1935

1935

The food-grains the vegetables the salts the fruits the waters (including the milk of cocoanuts for instance) the preparations of milk (curds whey ghee etc.) the sugarcanes the palms the onions the garlics the fishes and the meats and so forth have been likewise described with reference to their physiological bearings on man (Text pp. [...] The excavation of tanks the establishment of gods the constrution of boats and the treatment of diseases are some of the items of social life described in this treatise. [...] One of the methods of the missionaries is described as that of distributing among the people various books large and small reviling both Hinduism and Islam as well as of abusing and ridiculing the gods and saints of the former. [...] The Vedanta the Puranns and the Tantras those great documents of humanism and secular strength that had served the Indian millions through the ages with the perennial power to fight the battles of life were once more assured the selfsame status in connection with the new conjuntures of the nineteenth century. [...] This then is the minute which Macaulay submitted to Bentinck for approval and the latter approved it and on it was based the famous resolution of the 7th March 1835 which runs thus: " His Lordship in Council is of opinion that the great object of the British Government ought to be the promotion of European literture and science among the natives of India ; and that all the funds appropriated
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Pages
118
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120137
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-i unknown view
Frontmatter
i-vi unknown view
Hindu Sociological Literature from Chandesvara to Rammohun (C. 1300-1833)
1-14 Benoy Sarkar view
Hundred Years of Western Education in India
15-24 Anathnath Basu view
Two Cases of Cultural Variation
25-28 Nirmal Bose view
Malthus
29-57 Dhurjati Mukherji view
Sutherland’s Reminiscences of Rammohun Roy
58-76 Brajendranath Banerji view
At Home and Abroad
77-82 unknown view
Abstract
83-85 unknown view
News and Views
86-91 unknown view
Miscellany
92-100 unknown view
Reviews and Notices of Books
101-104 unknown view
Readers’ Forum
105-106 unknown view
Ourselves
107-109 unknown view

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