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The Calcutta Review an Illustrated Monthly (Third Series) June 1938

1938

The Indian classical dance the Bharata Natya performed with reverence and understanding is one of the most potent means of lifting the consciousness of the observer out of bodily conditions into a state of consciousness in which one becomes actually aware of the call of the Greater Life as revealed by the rhythmical vitality of the consecrated and disciplined human form and aware of a beauty u [...] But the content is devotional not intellectual save in the sense in which a reference to the drum in one hand of Nataraja and the flame in the other may have a philosophico-scientifio connottion for the instructed mind that sees in the one a reference to the fundamental "rhythmical vitality" of the universe which we call wave-lengths now and in the other a hint of the universally diffused fir [...] "To the Chinese eye clarified by the tradition of ages a mist-capped mountain is both mountain and mist and a subtle reminder of the development of all life and its qualities (including beauty) and activities (including art) from the interaction of heaven and earth ; the condensing of the mists of the celestial"1938] THE EXPRESSION OF BEAUTY IN ART 267 realm around the summits of the substantia [...] The Revenue Minister laid down that the Government is the peoples': they are the creators of the Ministry and when the ryot cultivators and agriculturists demand relief from land tax and remissions for failure of crops they the people and not their salaried agents " and the " salaried members " of the Party should indicate the ways in which the losses resulting from granting remissions could b [...] With the exception of their cousins Tibetans who called the animal " the bull of Nepal " (which they discovered through late contacts with Nepal) the Burmese the Siamese the Shan the Allow the Mo so and the Angami Naga dialects derive the name of the elephant from its ancient.
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Pages
129
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120137
Segment Pages Author Actions
The Expression of Beauty in Art
253-270 J. H. Cousins view
Policy of Rural Debt Relief
271-277 A. P. Patro view
Problems of Chinese Art and Archaeology
278-290 Kalidas Nag view
Early Annals of the Calcutta University II 1859-66
291-300 A.P. Dasgupta view
Libraries in Bengal : Present and Future
301-310 Nihar-Ranjan Ray view
Barnes’s History of Western Civilization
311-317 Benoykumar Sarkar view
The Phenomenality of the Objective World Implied in the Subject-Object Relation in Perception—An Idealistic Viewpoint
318-322 Ashoknath Shastri view
Visvesvara a Bengali Saiva Saint of the Thirteenth Century
323-326 Dines Sircar view
Poetic Genius—A Short Study
327-337 Kalicharan Shastri view
At Home and Abroad
338-340 unknown view
News and Views
341-344 unknown view
Miscellany
345-351 Benoy Sarkar view
Reviews and Notices of Books
352-357 unknown view
Ourselves
358-365 unknown view
Backmatter
1-16 unknown view

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