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University Extension Lectures 1915-16. Persuit of Chemistry in Bengal

1917

The manuscript contains the first canto of an Epic poem entitled the Maharastra Purana," or the defeat and death of Bhaskar Pandit, and thus deals with the irruption of the Mahrattas into Bengal, the incidents connected with which led to the adoption of a number of precautionary measures by the English for the safety and defence of their settlement in Calcutta. [...] We have a date entered at the close of the manuscript which I take to be the date of the copying of the manus- cript rather than of the composition of the poem. [...] Subah- dary, they requesting at the same time, that the deputies would entreat their master, in the Emperor's name, to send an army of sufficient force to exact the amount of the Chout that was due to them, and also to take the heads of Alliverdy and his brother, and restore the family of Sujah Khan to the Subahship, as the distracted state of the Empire put it out of his power to send a force str [...] lie then visited in succession those who deal in dairy products: the " Gandhabaniks," the "Malakars " and the Sankhabaniks" and the " Tambulis. " Thus the Maharashtra Purana of the Eighteenth Century speaks of the same familiar trades, the same familiar implements of production, the same familiar articles of merchandise as the Chaitanya Bhagabat of the Sixteenth Century. [...] The student of history would be excused if he thinks in this connection of the remote past of India, for there is a famous description of a seven-fold division of the Indian body politic in the pages of Megasthenes, in course of which the Greek traveller and Ambassador speaks of the Philosophers, the Brahmins and the Germanes ; the husbandmeu, who were never disturbed in their peaceful occupations
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Pages
172
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100014
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-iii P.C. Roy view
Pursuit of Chemistry in Bengal
i-14 P.C. Roy view
An Eighteenth Century Bengali Manuscript
i-25 J.N. Das Gupta view
The Classical and Romantic Poetry of the Eighteenth Century
i-11 H.R. James view
The Art Spirit in Keat’s Poetry
i-19 R.S. Knox view
Carlyle
i-10 J.R. Banerjee view
Construction Ideals in Education
i-16 E.E. Biss view
Nationality
i-44 R.N Gilchrist view
Astronomy Ancient and Modern
i-22 D.N. Mallik view

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