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Modern Review December 1926

1926

The striking conclusion of Bose after the proof of the non-existence of spontaneous movement relates to the analogy between the automatic pulsations of the plant and the animal between pulsating activity of Desmodium and that of the animal heart. [...] Acoerding to the researches of Gaskell the vague of the tortoise contains two kinds of fibre— A complete parallelism is also afforded with regard to the effects of temperatures Lowering of temperature has an effect both on the pulsation of the leaflets of Desmodium and on the pulsation of the frog's heed— enhancing the sunplittftle and diminishing thar frequency of the pulsations. [...] I had met Pherozeshah Mehta at Allahabad In his speech as Chairman of the Reception Committee in Bombay he made a great hit by comparing the opponents of the Congress to the inmates of the cave of Adullam ORIGIN OF INDIAN:DRAMA Br BATA KRISHNA OHOSH THE Drama is the index of an advanced stage of civilisation and is thenoblest production of the artistic instinct of man. [...] Even in the absence of dramatic works the evolution of the theatre may be traced by means of the direct or indirect evidence of Indian literature: the vedic Samhitas which go tack to the remote centuries before the Christian era : the Brahmanism which follow hard behind the Samhitas the ()mat epics. [...] Schroeder also points out that the Satapatha Brahman' refers to the verses of the Rig Veda merely as quotations and of the eigtheen verses of the Rig Veda only five are given in the Salpaths Brahman and that they do not in or way give the impression that to get the whole legend it is necessary to combine the verses of the Rig Veda and the prose of the Satapatha Brahmatia.
government politics public policy
Pages
142
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120016
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-i Ramananda Chatterjee view
The Movements of Plants
577-581 C. A. Timiriazeff view
Sind in the Eighties
582-586 Nagendranath Gupta view
Origin of Indian Drama
586-599 Bata Gohosh view
A Preface to the Hindu Categories of International Law
599-604 Benoy Sarkar view
An Astonishing Book About India
604-608 J.T. Sunderland view
History and Tendencies of Spiritualism and Psychical Research
609-618 Laura Finch view
In Memoriam: Surendra Nath Banerji
619-621 Jadunath Sarkar view
Mysore and The Government of India
622-623 G.R. Josyer view
Religion in East Africa
623-625 Chamupati view
Why I am a Buddhist
625-628 F. G. Pearce view
Deva Raya II
628-632 S. Sastri view
Electricity Applied to Agriculture
632-634 R. N. Shivapuri view
Letters from the Editor
634-638 unknown view
The Mystics of Islam
638-642 Ali Ameer view
The Revealer of Voiceless Realm of Plants
643-647 unknown view
English Verse from Indian Sources
647-649 R. C. Bonerjee view
Gleanings
650-657 unknown view
The Negro Renaissance
657-661 Agnes Smedley view
Reviews and Notioes of Books
661-666 unknown view
The Mechanism of Life
667-672 J. C. Bose view
Indian Periodicals
672-679 unknown view
Foreign Periodicals
679-685 unknown view
My Best Friend—Shakespeare
685-688 Romain Rolland view
Notes
688-700 unknown view