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The Calcutta Review An Illustrated Monthly (Third Series) February 1943

1943

On the 13th February 1919 the Indian Association the organistion of the Bengal Moderates under the presidentship of the Maharajah of Cossimbazar condemned the Rowlatt Report. [...] The following resolution was put from the chair and passed unanimously :— " In view of the unanimous opposition of India to the Rowlatt and the fact that not a single Indian non-official member voted with the Government for the passing of the Bill this public meeting appeals to His Excellency the Viceroy to withhold his assent to the Act or in the alternative to reserve the Act for the signific [...] Then we turned to the mythical conception of the cakkavatti developed in Buddhist canonical literature the world-ruler who effects the conquest of the earth under the aegis of the dharhma-cakka which makes its appearance in the sky to signify the presence of the eminent ruler who by his long and unfailing practice of the dha?hma has qualified for mastery over the whole world ; the cakka helps him [...] The first is as Mallinatha puts it conquest for the sake of fulfilling one's dharma (duty) and involves the use of force to the extent necessary to extort the enemy's submission ; the other eschews the use of force atogether and is conquest effected by means of the superior moral power of the chakkavatti signified by the manifestation of the dhanzmacakka in his presence. [...] The term came into vogue in the midst of political unrest in Upper Canada during the third and fourth decades of the nineteenth century.' In England its constitutional significance and implcations were for the first time clearly brought out in the impeachment of the Duke of Buckingham in the reign of Charles I. The Duke as a minister of the crown tried to take shelter behind the king's orde
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Pages
68
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120137
Segment Pages Author Actions
Gandhiji’s Entrance into Politics
99-109 H. C. Mookherjee view
The Riddle of Religion
110-113 Hari Gour view
Dharmavijaya and Dhammavijaya
114-123 K. N. Sastri view
Double Government in Bengal
124-138 Tripurari Chakravarti view
The Arab Invasion of Sind
139-144 Shibli Ibrahimi view
Freemasonry—A Study
145-149 A. Haye view
Miscellany
150-152 unknown view
Round the World
153-160 unknown view
Reviews and Notices of Books
161-164 unknown view
Ourselves
165-166 unknown view

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