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The Calcutta Review an Illustrated Monthly (Third Series) November 1946

1946

The conditions of the uprooted citizens became so miserable that the Governor General reported to the Court of Directors in 1834-35 that " the misery (of the cotton weavers) hardly finds a parallel in the history of the commerce. [...] The Talukdars who had lost their baronial rights being in the first throes of humiliation swelled the numbers of the dissatisfied who traced their downfall to the operations of the British rule." The advantages if any which occurred to the cultivators of Oudh -dine to the_working of Inam Commission were more than -nullified by the' disbandment of sixty thousand men of the army of the last King [...] In the new army (of the mutineers) the Sepoys elected their own officers and the officers chose their own Generals.' The landlords were terrified at the growth of the "democratic" spirit among the soldiers became suspicious of the results of the revolt and faltered in the midst of the struggle. [...] The merchants in the ports and of the coastal towns" actively supported the British army because they bad heard of the sad plight of their class brethren under the rule of the mutineers. [...] Bahadur Shah fought" under compulsion ; Nana Sahib took the field against the British only as a prisoner in the hands of the solders ". The Zamindars both of the British and pre-British times the merchants and the money-lenders the educated middle class and the native officials—all sided with the British or kept sullen neutrality as was demanded of them by the circumstances in which they wer
history
Pages
120
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120137
Segment Pages Author Actions
Opium Policy Under British Rule
75-84 H.C. Mookerjee view
Sociological Interpretation of Indian Mutiny
85-100 Satindra Singh view
Witticism in Arabic Literature
101-106 Nurul Alam view
Raja Ganesh of Bengal
107-114 S.M. Imamuddin view
Moula Na Rumi’s Conception of Life and Death
115-128 Harendrachandra Paul view
Round the World
129-133 unknown view
Reviews and Notices of Books
134-138 unknown view
Ourselves
139-139 unknown view
Official Notifications University of Calcutta
140-143 unknown view
Regulations for the B.E. Examination
1-51 unknown view

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