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The Calcutta Review an Illustrated Monthly (Third Series) May 1941

1941

In order to meet this objection I shall now quote a few lines from The Dawn of Indian Freedom" written by two priests of the Church of England Englishmen who have settled down as inmates of the Cluista Seva Sangha of Poona and who in the language of the Most Reverend the Archbishop of York have devoted their lives to the task of " interpreting the Christian Gospel to India in the utmost possib [...] It is especially noteworthy that in the Petition which the East India Company presented to the British Parliament in February 1858 on the eve of its abolition the expression invariably used for referring to the inhabitants of this country is the people of India and never the peoples of India. [...] CALCUTTA REVIEW [MAY Salisbury the Secretary of State for India sent to the Government of India on the 13th July 1b76 notifying the assumption by Her Majesty Queen Victoria of the title of Empress of India " spoke of the Queen's favourable sentiments towards " the Princes and People of India." (Italics mine.) The Parliamentary debates over the Indian Councils Bill of 1892 in referring to t [...] But the Bengal system of public instruction effected this triumph at the cost of the primary education of the masses." The cry that the system of public instruction of Bengal sacrificed the teaching of the masses to high-class education had no basis either in theory or io fact. [...] Hunter who was for some years the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Calcutta adopted an excellent criterion indeed for judging the results of the educational reforms of Lord Mayo in this country ! He was seeking to evaluate the so-called educational measures of Mayo not by the progress of general education among the people but by the disappearance of Muhammadan disaffetion." The prospects
history
Pages
100
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120137
Segment Pages Author Actions
Mahatma Gandhi’s Interpretation of the Doctrine of Satya-Ahimsa
93-108 H.C Mookherjee view
A Nation in Making: the Unity of India
109-129 Tripurari Chakravarti view
Forces in Modern Panjabi Poetry
130-134 Chranjit Bindra view
An Essay in the Logic of Aesthetics
135-148 Terence White view
What is Surrealism ?
149-154 S.N Ray view
Gestalt Psychology and Literary Criticism
155-166 Amiyakumar Sen view
Some Currents of Hindi and English Literatures
167-176 Lalita Sukul view
News and Views
177-179 unknown view
Miscellany
180-182 unknown view
Reviews and Notices of Books
183-188 unknown view
Ourselves
189-192 unknown view

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