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The Indian Review May 1913 A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Discussion of all Topics of Interest

1913

The real reason at the back of the foot-binding mania really appears to be the fact that the Chinese men admired small feminine feet and the women desirous of pleasing the opposite sex and believing that deformed feet constituted a great matrimonial asset submitted to the ordeal. [...] She received her first hint of the real state of things at the close of the Chinese Club meeting where while she was partaking of refreshments the Chairman told her that in the families of some of the gentlemen who had aplauded her the most the feet of all the women were tightly bound. [...] Little visited the various large cities of the land the Boxer Rising broke out in the north and the Dowager Empress issued orders to kill all foreigners The association that had been started by Kang Yu Wei in Canton to which allusion already has been made and others like it were broken up by the orders of Tui Hai and some of the leaders of the movement were put to death by the relenless [...] " Mother it is no gain ; Thy bondage of finery if it keep one shut off from the healthful dust of the earth if it rob one of the right of entrance to the great fair of common human life." This is the theme of several of the following poems some of the most beautiful in the book. [...] In the 70th song even the English prose version is extraordinarily expressive of the restless liapid music of the world as the poet cries to God :- Is it beyond Thee to be glad with the gladness of this rhythm." What is the meaning of this dance of God 1 Again how is the web of Maya woven in evanescent hues of gold and silver ? What further aspect is there in the poet's philsophy ? I repeat
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China’s Deliverance from its Social Moloch
369-377 Saint Singh view
The Gitanjali
378-381 P.B. Emmet view
India’s Progress to a Gold Currency
381-383 M. De. P. Webb view
Science and Buddhism
383-385 unknown view
Henry Thomas Colebrooke
386-392 Shumboo Dey view
Notes on Moral and Religious Education
392-394 M. Krishnamacharya view
The Work before Indian Co-Operators
394-400 Radhakamal Mukerjee view
Sir Taraknatii Palit
400-404 Pratap Sen view
Indians in the Army
404-406 J.B. Pennington view
Journalistic Section
406-408 unknown view
An Anglo-Indian’s Note-Book
408-409 unknown view
Current Events
410-412 Rajduari view
Diary of the Month April-May 1913
413-414 unknown view
The World of Books
414-i unknown view
Topics from Periodicals
417-424 unknown view
Questions of Importance
425-428 unknown view
Utterances of the Day
429-431 unknown view
Indians Outside India
431-432 unknown view
Feudatory of India
433-435 unknown view
Industrial and Commercial Section
435-438 unknown view
Agricultural Section
439-440 unknown view
Literary
441-441 unknown view
Educational
442-442 unknown view
Legal
443-443 unknown view
Medical
444-444 unknown view
Science
445-445 unknown view
Personal
446-446 unknown view
Political
447-447 unknown view
General
448-449 unknown view