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East & West May 1911

1911

Foreign invasion " wrote the District Officer "and intestine tumult had materially checked pormztion whilst the poverty of the country and the rapacity of its governors dad almost annihilated commerce." Elsewhere it was noted that " the forof Government which had existed had not opAeratOd to relieve the necessities of the subject or to improve the reabufees of the etripid by the encourageme [...] And the tune is the main thing—and the roots of that go back centuries deep in the soul of the people—probably the Vikings chanted it to the rhythmic beat of their great oars. [...] Such a slipshod description betrays ignorance of the fact that for upwards of 3 c.)oo years Hinduism has lasted defying the ravages of time the revolution of empires tit:: vicissitudes of governments the iconoclastic spirit of the Mohamedans and the missionary zeal of the Christians. [...] If " says Professor Muller wifli all the documents before us we ask the question (Jet. caste as we find it in Manu and at the present time form one of the most ancient religious teachings of the Vedas we can answer it 1:91;:i decided No." The Aryans had advanced beyond the rude existence of the to the settled industry of the cultivator of the soil. [...] ( 2 THE EPIC PERILD ( B. C. 1400 to B. C. r000):' In this period the two celebrated epic poems the Al ahabharata and the Ramayana were composed As the Mahabharata celebrates the Lunar race of Delhi so the Ramayana forms the epic history of the : C.lar race of Ajodhya the ancient capital of Ondh.
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The Last Watch of the Night
381-386 H.G. Keene view
The Horrors of Self-Immolation in India
387-396 Jatindra Sen view
The Border Counties
397-404 T. Baty view
The Social Constitution of the Aryan Hindus
405-415 K.C. Kanjilal view
A Child’s Idyll
416-425 Mary Boole view
The Villain as Iago
426-439 P. Seshadri view
Human Nutriment as Controlled by Religion
440-442 G.W. Jackson view
Little Life-Lessons Learned from the Himalayas
443-448 unknown view
Browning’s Doctrine of Srlf-Realisation
449-453 U.F. Rust view
Gone in a Moment
454-467 D.C. Pedder view
Editorial Note
468-473 unknown view
Current Events
474-476 unknown view