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The Indian Review November & December 1911 A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Discussion of all Topics of Interest

1911

It was poured out from a vessel shaped like an eagle into a spoon and cosecrated by the Archbishop who anointed the King in the form of a cross on the crown of his head on his breast and on the palms of his hands as a symbol of the consecration of thought feeling Knighthood and symbclise the duty of the King to uphold the right and succour the oppressed Next came a series of striking cere [...] The Tabakat-i-Akbari in referring to the event says that he was " raised to the throne in the town of Kalanoor at noon-day of Friday the 2nd of Rabis-sani with all due state and ceremony and letters of grace were sent to all parts of Hindustan." But the best account we have of the Moghul Cornation is in the case of Jehanghir the son of Akbar. [...] But it can hardly be doubted that in later days it is the display of the resources at the disposal of the sovereign and the exhibition of the grandeur and the magnificence of his possesions to his own people and to the world at large that has been the guiding factor of the event. [...] The leaders of the people the state officials and the sacrificial priest then sit round the throne In front of the sovereign sits the Adhvaryu (the priest who conducts the sacrifice) ; the Brahman (the chief priest) to the right; the Hotru (the priest who recites the Rigveda) behind; and the Udugatru (the priest who chants the Sarnaveda) to the left. [...] Notwithstanding all that is said of the despotic character of the Hindu monarchy by European savants there is ample evidence in the Epics and the Puranas to show that the election of the King must have the approval of all classes of the community.
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The Coronation Service
833-836 unknown view
The Coronation of Aurangazib
837-842 Jadunath Sarkar view
The Coronation of Jehanghir
842-844 C. Rao view
Ancient Hindu Coronation
844-849 T.V. Aiyar view
Shiwajee’s Coronation
849-851 N.C. Kelkar view
Relations between Europeans and Indians
852-854 William Wedderburn view
The Hindu University
854-ii Annie Besant view
Delhi Then and Now
857-864 unknown view
All About Delhi
864-ii unknown view
Near Future of Imperial Finance
865-i Dinshaw Wacha view
His Majsety King George
873-882 unknown view
Her Majesty Queen Mary
882-887 unknown view
The Gains of the Passive Resistance Struggle
888-889 M.K. Gandhi view
India and Imperial Preference
889-892 V.G. Kale view
The Depressed Classes
892-895 N. Ranganatham view
Burke and India
895-901 P.N. Pilai view
The Indian Life Assurance Companies’ Bill
902-904 Dewan Krishnaswamirau view
The Reform Proposals
904-905 unknown view
A Great Indian Artist
905-909 unknown view
H. E. Sir Thomas Gibson-Carmichael Bart
910-912 unknown view
The Last Two Durbars
913-i unknown view
What the Taj Told an American Woman
921-922 Saint Singh view
Azim and Zuleikha
922-925 Michael Macmillan view
Psychology an the School-Room
925-927 K.B. Ramianathan view
The Teachings of Islam
928-929 Ghulam Mahumud Muhagir view
The Hindu University
929-931 Satish Banerjee view
Zoroastrianism in Dante
931-935 Jivanji Mody view
The Indians of South Africa
936-938 H.S.L. Polak view
The President-Elect of the Congres
938-940 unknown view
The Late Sister Niyedita
940-941 M. Aiyar view
The Hon. Mr. V. Krishnaswamy Aiyar’s Madras University Convocation Address
942-946 unknown view
Sir Atrhur Lawley
947-948 unknown view
Current Events
948-949 Rajduari view
The World of Books
950-952 unknown view
Topics from Periodicals
953-960 unknown view
Qutestion of Importance
961-963 unknown view
Utterances of the Day
964-965 unknown view
Indians Outside India
966-968 unknown view
Feudatory India
969-970 unknown view
Industrial and Commercial Section
971-975 unknown view
Agricultural Section
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Literary
977-977 unknown view
Educational
978-978 unknown view
Legal
979-979 unknown view
Medical
980-980 unknown view
Science
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Personal
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Political
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General
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