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The Calcutta Review April 1898

1898

With the exception of Worm who was far more of a poet than a preacher the only proselytizing activity of the Danes in the seventeenth century is to be found in their custom of taking the crews of Bengal privateers prisoners baptizing them and selling them for slaves. [...] The mission.ts.t matter of fact had three congregations ; the Portuguese the Familia(' of the town and the Tamilian of the country. [...] In one of the disused fort chambers can be seen the date 1(.77 and the gaudily painted arms of Christian the Fifth Even the citadel still sports the archial escutcheon of the old Asiatiske Handel with the figure of an elephant underneath. [...] In it he traces the former state of oppression and personal Government in England under which Englishmen had very little liberty and alludes to the Star Chamber and the persection of the popular patty by the Stuarts ; and after noticing the beneficial effects of the Revolution of on the liberties of the English people he proceeds to explain the highly salutary work of a free press in disse [...] We shall therefore give it here entire translated from the original Gujarati one of the two chief laguages of the Bombay Presidency in which the paper appeared; The style of the original is natural and direct.
history
Pages
217
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120137
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-i unknown view
Frontmatter
i-ii unknown view
Art I—Tranquebar
205-217 Julian Cotton view
Art II—The Oldest Paper in India the Bombay Samachar
218-236 R.P. Karkaria view
Art III—Our West India Colonies Their Present Condition and Their Prospects
237-270 unknown view
Art IV—The Eleventh International Oriental Congress
271-290 unknown view
Art V—Vedic India
291-314 Syed Latif view
Art VI—Jainism and Buddhism
315-337 A.F. Hoernle view
Art VII—The Indian Problem
338-344 unknown view
Art VIII—Life and Writings of Gulbadan Begam (Lady Rosebody)
345-371 Annette S. Everidge view
Art IX—The Diary of Govinda Das
372-383 unknown view
Art X—Life of Tennyson
384-396 unknown view
The Quarter
397-408 unknown view
Correspondence
409-409 R.P. Karkaria view
Critical Notices
xiv-xx unknown view
Acknowledgments
i-ii unknown view

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