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The Hindustan Review April 1914

1914

These principles involve not only the limitation of the power of the Executive but the participation of the governed in gov meat and as far as possible the provision of equal these are the lines on which not only European and Asiatic peoples like the Turks the Japanese and the Pe work. [...] But it introduced at its very commeneemeat an altogether new and wholesome limitation on the power of the Executive in the principle of the equality of all in the eyes of law and howsoever short of the ideal the bureaucratic practice may have fallen the principle itself was not questioned even in the worst days of the East dia Company. [...] The Brahman's self-complacency and pride of quascelestial lineage the Kshatriya's planting the rot of his pedigree in the Sun and the Moon the claim of the handicraftsman to be the direct child of the celestial architect and mechanic Visvakarma the assertion of the needy applicant for official preferment that although of inferi)r qualifications he is the direct descendant of a defunct Raja [...] If the above account of the flight of the Pushpakam be stripped of verbiage and of the supernatural element due to the flamboyant imagination and poetic license of Valmiki does the result justify in the mind of a careful and critical modern student the conclusion that aviation: was common among the ancients ? Vinians were unknown to the humans : they were the special property of a different and [...] But who set the wind in motion and who is the author of the law of gravitation ? The wind and the law of gravitation may be the apparent causes of the phenomenon but the real cause is God who set the wind in motion and to whom the law of gravitation owes its origin and existence.
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Pages
127
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120070
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
355-355 Sachchindananda Sinha view
Modern Europe and Modern India —II
355-360 unknown view
Lucknow: Past and Present
361-369 Ganga Verma view
Aviation in Ancient Hindustan
370-375 V.N. Iyengar view
The Doctrine of Karma
376-381 Krishna Verma view
Woman in Islam
382-388 Syed Brelvi view
The Dowry System in Bengal
389-395 unknown view
The Passing of Korea—II
396-415 Angus Hamilton view
Some Thoughts on the Situation in Ireland
416-425 unknown view
Literary Supplement
426-426 unknown view
The Book of the Month
426-427 unknown view
Views and Reviews
427-434 S.S. Suryanarayanan view
Views and Reviews
435-453 A. Worsley view
Reviews and Notices
454-456 unknown view
The Press in India in 1913-14
457-464 unknown view
The Open Forum
465-468 unknown view
The Kayastha World
469-478 unknown view

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