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The Calcutta Review An Illustrated Monthly (Third Series) May 1936

1936

The stories are ior# in the word4 of the Poets themselves: in the case of the Ramayana it the poet Valmiki that is peaking 71.. [...] It was the starting of the College of Fort William that gave an impetus to the composition and consequent publication of grammar4 and dictionary of some of the prominent modern Indian 19pguages. [...] The book contains a dedication to Sir George Barlow which is interesting because it pays tribute to the rare critical scholarship of Sir George in point of the grammar and pronunciation of the Hindoostanee language this in itself an index of the interest taken by the leading officials in the language. [...] It was not for nothing that Elpbinstone the historian of India called Gilchrist " the Founder of Hindee Philology and author of various works." He laboured hard to make the knowledge of Hindustanee easy of access to the European stranger in India and with it he was much interested in the study of the language accorto philological principles. [...] Gilchrist thus expreEised himself as to the importance of improving the accessibility of the knowledge of Hindoostanee to the Englishmen : "Wore the Hindoostanee a matter of little moment to the great majority of our youth who proceed to India ; were it merely an ornamental or recondite inert of their education it would be of much less consequence 2"146 TEE CALCIITTA REVIEW NAY to the nation whe
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Pages
142
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120137
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-4 unknown view
Treaties
137-139 Madame Horup view
Hindi in the College of Fort William
140-150 Priyaranjan Sen view
Asghar
151-154 Amaranatha Jha view
Program Panning and Curriculum Construction
155-166 C.E. Turner view
Saivism and Associate Cults of Central Java
167-176 Himansu Sarkar view
Rudyard Kipling
177-189 Mohini Bhattacherjee view
Banking in Bengal
190-205 B.R. Biswas view
German Winter Relief as a Form of Social Service
206-i Benoy Sarkar view
Surendra Nath Mallik
216-217 C.C. Biswas view
Arts Letters and Sciences
218-223 unknown view
At Home and Aborad
224-226 unknown view
News and Views
227-233 unknown view
Miscellany
234-239 Benoy Sarkar view
Reviews and Notices of Books
240-241 unknown view
Ourselves
242-245 unknown view
Notification
246-246 unknown view
Corps Activities. 1935
247-251 unknown view
Backmatter
1-18 unknown view

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