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The Calcutta Review an Illustrated Monthly (Third Series) July 1927

1927

The local people everywhere welcomed the programme ; and regarded the notorioqs bund of the Damodar (from the point of view of the sanitation of the localities) as a veritable boon from the Company saving them from the annual inroads of the flood which caused them insufferable distress and immense loss of wealth. [...] But the taunts of the elders the humours of the village wits and the satires of the Bengalee literature all alike fell before the tide of the western culture new-born individualism the changed circumstances of society and economic necessities. [...] The literature about land tenure of the period the remarks of the judicial authorities in course of adjudication of cabs that cropped up in multitude in the wake of the settlement of 1793 regarding property in lands the tenure to it and settlement as well as payment of rent were supplemented by the remarks about the oppression of the landlords in the village areas by the Magistrates responsible [...] This tendency was accentuated by the revolutionary land measure of 1793 which deprived the proprietors of land in the village of their immemorial rights on it ; and the inaugurtion of which deprived the village-Bhadraloks of their traditional status as the leaders of the folk there and of their functions as the arbitrators in village disputes as the 'rations of the simple folk in their distr [...] The consequent social revolution of the disruption of thejoint family and the starting of the individual fignilies in the places of service was long delayed by the conservatism of customgl6 The CALMITA REVIEW PULT among the people of Eastern Bengal who looked with peculiar aversion on the taking away of the daughter-in-law of the family by her husband in his abode in towns.
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Pages
131
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120137
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-viii unknown view
Sir Asutosh Mookerjee
1-10 Latika Basu view
Socio-Economic Revolution in Bengal During the Latter Half of the Nineteenth Century
11-31 Akshaykumar Sarkar view
The Anglo-Russian Contest and India
32-41 Taraknath Das view
Reality and Relativity
42-59 Bepin Newgie view
Some Early Buddhist Missionaries of Persia in China
60-64 P.C. Bagchi view
Thomas Jefferson and French Influence
65-74 Bhupendranath Dutt view
The History of Orissa and Its Lessons
75-83 Nirmalkumar Basu view
The Colours of Sky and Sea
84-90 C.V. Raman view
Faith in Buddhism
91-103 B.M. Barua view
Panini’s “Parts of Speech”
104-110 I.J.S. Taraporewala view
Reviews
111-116 unknown view
Ourselves
117-122 unknown view

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