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The New Review October 1935

1935

The cuckoo or the skylark of the Reader are more familiar toA CENTENARY OF INDIAN EDUCATION 301 them than the shrill kokila in the mango-tree or the gentle kapota in the neem-tree. [...] The Rig Veda has a hymn in honour of the teacher and the pupil ; the Grihyastitras describe the ceremony of schooling in reverent detail ; the Chdndogya-Upanishad distinguishes the four stages of a man's religious life of which studenship is the first ; and the Manava-Dharmascistra gives minute rules for the ritual of a student's life. [...] 'For the year 1578 I find nothing worth recording except the rare ability of Father John de Feria the first who cut and melted types of the letters of the Tamil language on the Fishery Coast with which it the same year were printed the Flo Sanctormn a Christian Doctrine a copious Confessionary and other books from which the fathers learn to read and write. [...] THE FIRST PRINTING-PRESSES IN INDIA 329 seminary (1584) ' and established a college (1587).' In compliance with the disciplinary decrees of the Synod of Diamper (1599) the Jesuits of Vypicotta were asked to co-operate in the reform of the Syrian liturgical books used in Malabar. [...] The story of the Tranquebar Mission Press clearly belongs to the second period of the history of the press in India ; to its growth and not to its birth.
history
Pages
105
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.120030
Segment Pages Author Actions
A Centenary of Indian Education
297-309 T.N. Siqueira view
The Corporative Ideal
310-320 J. Steenkiste view
The First Printing-Presses in India
321-330 Leo Proserpio view
The Method of Immanence in French Philosophy
331-337 Francis Lenoble view
Angelo Da Fonseca
338-i M. S.J. Ledrus view
Spanish Colonization
339-348 H. Comes view
King Soap
349-354 J.F. Caius view
One Man’s Meat
355-364 Mary Fuller view
A Classless Society
365-375 M. S.J. Ledrus view
The Self-Respect Movement
376-384 M. Arokiaswami view
Some Recent Books
385-400 M. S.J. Ledrus view

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