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The Calcutta Review An Illustrated Monthly (Third Series) February 1941

1941

6 4. DIgba Nikaya (Discourses on the Buddha)—Contains some of the great controversies of the Buddha with other teachers and the longest of His discourses on the tenets of Buddhism. [...] The present is rooted in the pa4 the future is only a projection of the present as the past has left its indelible impress on the present so the present is inevitably shaping the future. [...] The lvtlnxlnitious of the impending disaster were probably perceived as early as the first decade of the 1Sth century but will it not be rash to assert that the Mughal empire ceased to exist with the Peeeiog away of the great Alemkgir ? When did the end come ? With the invasion of Nadir Shah ? With the murder of A lanigir II ? With the British occupation of Delhi ? The empire as a political entit [...] Does the passing away of the empire synchronise with the advent of the Modern Age in India ? Was the ftl-called Mughal period essentially medieval in its political institutions intellectual outlook and economic organisation ? In Europe the seventeenth century witnessed that intellectual revolution and religious upheaval which marked the end of medieval faith and established the modern supremacy o [...] The old records lying uncared for in the Zemiudars katcheri in the ancient temples and monasteries in the family masions of the rich the grocers ledgers the bankers accounts the dhobes bill the farmers wages roll the housewifes bazar chits must all be laid under contribution and every place from the Princes palace to the peasants but must be scoured for them.
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Pages
149
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120137
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-xiv unknown view
Shakespearean Puzzle-Endeavours After Its Solution
87-92 P.C. Ray, Bhabes Ray view
The Modern Age in India
93-101 S.N. Sen view
Critical Approach and Agnosticism
102-112 S.K. Chattopadhyay view
Board and Volantary Schools of England and Wales 1870-1926
113-124 Debendra Dasgupta view
Education Under Auckland: 1836-42
125-136 Nirmal Sinha view
Mass Education in India
137-152 Amalesh Ghose view
New Light on Kashiram Das
153-156 Romesh Banerjee view
Two Modern Nature Poets—Edward Thomas and Edmund Blunden
157-164 B.K. Palit view
The Poetry of Walter De La Mare
165-178 Manoj Chattopadhayay view
Some Well-Known Moralists on Veracity
179-189 Abanimohan Roy view
News and Views
190-191 unknown view
Miscellany
192-196 unknown view
Reviews and Notices of Books
197-201 unknown view
Ourselves
202-205 unknown view
Backmatter
1-16 unknown view

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