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The Calcutta Review an Illustrated Monthly (Third Series) June 1947

1947

The proportion of the flag will be to fly to hoist as three is to two." It is too recent history and unnecessary to do any thing but mention the two heroic struggles which forced the hands of the British the struggle of the '42 movement and the conception of the I.N. [...] Sometimes the symbolism of the sun with all its wealth of detail its chariot and horses is fully portrayed as in the artistic planning of the Kunarak temple but more often as in the Buddhist freizes the Chakra or wheel of the Chariot (resembling the sun's disc and rays) took the place of the chariot of the sun. [...] The conception of the ratha too came from the chariot of the sun so wonderfully described in the Rig Vedic hymns in Buddhist pictorial art therefore the Chakra or wheel of the sun sometimes represented the wheel of law and sometimes the sun of the enlightened mind. [...] As a matter of fact the disproportionate smallness of the Chakra in the flag and the bareness of the oblong strip of white cloth which does not at all form a suitable frame for the Chakra as it did in the case of the oblong Charkha is apparent to all and is causing universal disappointment with the flag. [...] For this purpose it is necessary to impart to the people of India for example the knowledge of (1) the history of the different cultures which have mingled together and contributed to the different traits (2) the origins and intermixture of the different races composing the Indian population (3) the ditinction between the valuable and abiding elements of culture and the lower ones which ham
history
Pages
69
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120137
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-ii unknown view
The National Flag and the Symbol of the Charkha
119-124 Latika Ghose view
The Basis of World Understanding
125-129 William Nelson view
The Future of Sanskrit Studies
130-134 Bishnupada Bhattacharyya view
The Psychology of Culture Conflict
135-143 D.M. Datta view
The Press and the Law of Contempt of Court in India
144-157 Nikhilranjan Ray view
Educating the People
158-170 B.D. Roy view
Round the World
171-176 unknown view
Reviews and Notices of Books
177-181 unknown view
Ourselves
182-183 unknown view
Official Notifications University of Calcutta Orders by the Vice-Chancellor and Syndicate of the University of Calcutta
184-185 unknown view

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