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The Calcutta Review an Illustrated Monthly (Third Series) September 1925

1925

And the rules of taste were no longer to be the traditional culture of the people which their forefathers had bequeathed to them—it was to be the monopoly of the bookmen who had studied the classics of Greece and Rome. [...] Some years ago the late Sir Asutosh Mookerjee who did so much as Vice-Chancellor of the Calcutta University to -support the reviving artistic consciousness of English educated Bengalis in recommending to the Senate the cretion of a chair of Fine Arts said :— I have placed in the forefront the Chair of Indian Fine Arts lest we should forget the past greatness of India in the history of the ar [...] That this is almost irresistible in children and unsophisticated persons is illustrated by the story of how the young Buskin insisted on reciting the lines Shall any following spring revive The ashes of the urn ? with a stress on the " of." In this line however and in The thunder of the trumpets of the nigYit it is not too much to say that the rhythm emerges from the wordegneneee themselves an [...] Rather it seems that the factors necessary for the building of nationality are to be found covered by the combined definitions of Bauer and Cunow that a nation is based on the community of language and community of character grown out of the community of fate. [...] The last we have got the community of character is the result of the common evolution but the community of language for all India is the desideratum.
history
Pages
200
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120137
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-i unknown view
Art Economics and Politics
345-358 E.B. Havell view
The Rhythm of the World
359-363 Gwendoline Goodwin view
What is Rhythm
364-368 Egerton Smith view
On the Formation of Indian Nationality
369-384 Bhupendranath Dutta view
Eugenics and Mr. Chesterton
385-400 Cedric Dover view
Historical Records at Goa
401-426 unknown view
The Kingdom of Man as Confucius Saw it (551-479 B.C.)
427-i Chi Chu view
Tibetan Devil-Dancing
433-439 Lily Anderson view
The Arthasastra of Kautilya and the Nitisastra of Sukra (A Political Study.)
440-449 Ajit Sen view
The Organisation of Labour
450-476 B. Rau view
Administrative Machinery of the Scythian Period
477-498 unknown view
The Apology of “Ajax”
499-505 unknown view
Notes of an Academic “Orphan of the Storm”
506-527 unknown view
Reviews
528-533 J.P.N. view
Ourselves
534-540 Narendranath Ray view

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