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The Calcutta Review an Illustrated Monthly (Third Series) October 1940

1940

There was a time when Karma to the case of the Hindu and Kismet in the case of. „ the Mussalman in other woras the inexorable working of fate was regarded as anadequate explanation of their miserable and joyless life. [...] The British administrtion was known to the masses through the tax-collector the suordinate officers of the civil courts who had attached and sold their slender possessions in the past to meet their liabilities to the zernindar and the mahajan and the subordinate police offic._trs.who had always oppressed them. [...] The reflections the sketch of the inner conflict the motivation the interaction between character and circumstances are all managed with supreme skill andr have ii surprising note of modernity about them—surprising all the more when we look at the comparative develfipment of the English novel in his day. [...] In Alrinalini the history is weaker still and the central love-story snore unconCrinin p : but there is amends in the conception of the enigniatical character of Manorarna and a splendid evidenc of historical Imagination in the narration of the sack of Gaur and of the di7creditable court intrigues that led to such a -catastrophe. [...] A strong grasp of the conception of Tragic Destiny that suggests a Hardean parallelism is 'also in evidence in the discovery of the relations between Monorama and Pasupati and the self-immolation of the former.
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Pages
131
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120137
Segment Pages Author Actions
Shakespearean Puzzle—Endeavours After its Solution
1-10 P.C. Ray view
Indian Leadership & the Awakening of the Masses
11-23 H.C. Mookerjee view
History of the Bengali Novel
24-36 Srikumar Banerjee view
The Adwaita of the Gita
37-46 Anil Roy view
Two French Sociologists : Levy-Bruhl and Bougle
47-54 Benoykumar Sarkar view
Notions on Purification and Taboo in Society
55-70 Bhupendranath Datta view
A Comparative Study of the Board and the Voluntary Schools of England and Wales from 1870 to 1926
71-82 Derendra Dasgupta view
Characterisation in Bankim Chandra’s Novels
83-89 Amiyakumar Sen view
Java in Asiatic History and Culture
90-101 Kalidas Nag view
Heredity and Education
102-112 Banshi Dhar view
News and Views
113-116 unknown view
Miscellany
117-122 unknown view
Reviews and Notices of Books
123-125 unknown view
Ourselves
126-129 unknown view

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