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The Visva-Bharati Quarterly August 1945 - October 1945

1945

The prChaitanya effects of the former have already been hinted at ; significance of the Chaitanya movement which is so often missed and the interaction of the various forces and factors brought to the fore by the impact of the great movement remain yet to be seen and understood in their historical context. [...] Indeed the Chaitanya movement brought a new Bengal into being and it is only against the bacground of the socio-religious ideology of this new Bengal can one appreciate the real significance of the art and literature of the mediaeval period from about the beginning of the 16th to about the end of the 18th century. [...] Art and literature that are essentially products of the court and the upper class suffer but little when read in the context of political and dynastic history ; but those that are largely the products of the people in general as in mediaeval Bengal have got to be related to the context of the larger sociological background that reflects not only the attitude of the court and the upper classes bu [...] This vital lifprocess found creative expression around the very popular theme of Radha and Krishna at one end of which there is the eternal cry of the body for the body and at the other the complete union of the soul with the soul where there is only the One and Indivisible. [...] Lastly there was the realm essentially and almost exclusively of the intellect a realm that was the preserve of the few i. e. the upper Hindu aristocracy that was the main prop of the alien political domination the Brahmanas and the upper castes.
humanities general

Authors

Prabhat Kumar Mukherjee

Pages
94
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120091
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-i K.R. Kripalani view
Frontmatter
i-v K.R. Kripalani view
Tagore’s Analysis of Hindu-Moslem Relations
71-85 Sachin Sen view
This Fate-Forged Bond
86-86 Rabindranath Tagore view
Mediaeval Bengali Culture
87-95 Niharranjan Rai view
The Lees of Youth
96-96 Indira Chaudhurani view
The Wounded Heart
97-107 Annada Ray view
How the Academy Idea Came
108-114 J.H. Cousins view
The Problem of Form and Content in Keats
115-119 Prabash Chaudhury view
Natir Puja
120-134 Rabindranath Tagore view
Drums
135-135 K.R. Kripalani view
Reviews
136-143 K.R. Kripalani view
Backmatter
i-xv K.R. Kripalani view

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