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The Calcutta Review October 1911

1911

Dionysos Demeter and Persephone were worshipped as the gods of the vintage and the harvest home not merely as symbols or transparent allegories of the planting of the seed and the renewal of vegetation or of the burial of the body and survival of the soul but in order that the worshipper of these gods of the earth " might obtain a better lot after death. [...] The guardians of the laws accordingly will not permit a poet to erect his stage in the agora or introduce " the fair voices of his actors " until he has shown his songs to the Magistrates and had then compared with those of the State the keynote of which was an imitation of the noblest and the best. [...] The trial and death of Socrates are the result of the clash between the tendencies of orthodox belief on the one hand and of the new criticism on the other. [...] He it is who provides the produce to enable our merchants to trade ; he it is who grows the cotton and the jute to run over mills ; he it is who provides the bulk of the traffic for the railways fills the steamers with the rice the linseed the jute and the indigo the hides and the tea ; he it is who brings the piecegoods from Europe ; he it is who pays the land revenue and the army and grows t [...] And'the frequent disturbances and insurrections among the aboriginal population of the District in the last quarter of the eighteenth and the first three decades of the nineteenth centuries culminating in the Kol Rebellion " of 1831-32 and the agrarian agitation and disturbances among the Mundas and Uraons in the last quarter of the nineteenth century culminating in the Birsaite Revolt of 1899
history
Pages
150
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120137
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-ii unknown view
Art.I.—Synthesis of Juridical Anomalies
375-381 W.C.M. view
Art. II.—All Things Full of Gods
382-396 C.G. Maekay view
Art. III.—The Indian Industrial Conference
397-413 Jogindra Samaddar view
Art. IV.—The Administrative History and Land Tenures of the Ranchi District Under British Rules
414-471 Sarat Ray view
The Country and Temple of Kamakhya
472-518 J. L. Chatterji view
Acknowledgments
519-522 unknown view

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