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The New Review December 1939

1939

The increase in the expenditure on :loth incurred by the well-to-do sections and the urban communities owing to the higher price of khadi would be a net addition to the purchaing power of the villagers as well as the saving of the amount paid as interest and profits included in the price of mill cloth. [...] All that is over ; outside the regions occupied by the fifty Japanese divisions Marshal Chiang Kai-shek is the unchallenged master ; the nation has been welded into a solid block ; the propaganda of the students driven away from their University towns into the countryside the marches to and fro of regiments through the various provinces the rekindling of the traditional hatred for all foreigner [...] There were exceptions however ; historians speak with enthusiasm of the sailing charts and maps of the Italian sailors of the fifteenth century 'the beautiful portolani the work of Italian and Catalan cartographers from the information of sailors which astonish us by the comparative accuracy of their delineation and the extent of the knowledge they represent. [...] Wilford in the early part of the nineteenth century.' It had disappeared as had many another work of the Jesuits during the suppression and dispersion of the Society of Jesus in the latter part of the eighteenth Cf. [...] Phillimore : `The chief merit of the map is the delineation of the Western Himalaya and the upper course of the rivers from the Jumna to the Indus which are better shown than in any other map for the next two hundred years for even Rennell and Call were misled by the errors of the Lamas' map.'2 Monserrate is rather fortunate in his location of various mountains and rivers.
history
Pages
99
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.120030
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-ix T.N. Siqueira view
This Side and That
465-472 unknown view
Monserrates Map of India
473-486 J. Farland view
The Magic Package
487-496 B. Leeming view
Village Panchayats in Madras
497-516 K. Jayaraman view
Reviving a Dead Language
517-520 P. Krieger view
Religion and Society
521-529 A.B. D’Souza view
Fair France
530-540 A. Lallemand view
Some Recent Books
541-552 unknown view
Shorter Notices
553-553 unknown view
Backmatter
i-i unknown view

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