cover image: Presidency College Patrika. October 1951

Premium

20.500.12592/hfjv46

Presidency College Patrika. October 1951

1951

Land reform has been completed in the North and North-East and is to be extended to the rest of the country on the basis of the confiscation of feudal and public estates not touching at the moment the smaller lanlords and the rich peasantry. [...] The Jataka stories relate to merchants voyaging from Tamralipti to Campa (modern Bhagalpur) to Suvarnabhumi and Suvarnadvipa the land and the island of gold the general designations for the lands and the islands in the Far East correponding to the "Chryse" peninsula and the "Chryse" island respectively of the Greek geographers and as the names indicate a sort of "El dorado" for the Indian [...] The Ceylonese tradition preserved in the two celebrated Chronicles the Dipavamsa and the Mahavamsa associates the Indian colonization of that island in the 6th century B. C. (if the tradition is to be believed) with a prince named Vijaya of Sihapura in the territory of Lala. [...] The same uncertainty prevails regarding the association of Bengal with the foundation of the Annamese Kingdom of Van-lang ascribed by tradition to the adventure of a prince called Lak-long who scholars like Gerini opine went from Bengal in the 7th century B. C. and introduced there the ruing race of `Vuang' (Vanga ?) that dominated over the kingdom till the 3rd century of the pre-Christian Era. [...] In the middle of the 8th century Bengal was relieved of a century-and-a-half old anarchy and confusion known as "matsyanyaya" by the advent of a new royal dynasty the Palas ; and this remarkable synchronisation points almost irresistibly to the conclusion that the restoration of political order and stability in the country and moreover the patronage offered by the new ruling family which se
education
Pages
83
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120237
Segment Pages Author Actions
College Prasanga
1-5 Sipra Sarkar view
Nonajol Theke
6-ii Ramgopal Chottopadhyay view
Kobi Sukanta
9-13 Bharat Bhattcharya view
Itihaske
14-14 Asit Bhattcharya view
Ghash
14-15 Susnato Gangopadhyay view
Itihas Theke
15-16 Produyot Ghosh view
Sagarer Daak
16-17 Tusharkanti Ghosh view
Ekti Kurun Kahini
17-19 Binay Bhattcharya view
Silpi
19-ii Sukdeb Sinha view
Amader Kotha
25-42 Sipra Sarkar view
Notes and News
1-5 Sipra Sarkar view
While Memory Serves
6-13 Ashok Mitra view
Can Intelligent Students Today Afford to be Good Students ?
14-16 Sipra Sarkar view
The Future of Poetry
16-18 Sanatkumar Bhattcharya view
Maritime Activities in Ancient Bengal
19-27 Kamaleswar Bhattcharya view
The English Seminar
27-27 Sipra Sarkar view
The “Mock-Parliament”—A Nove1 Experiment
28-29 S.K. Bhaduri view
Backmatter
i-i Sipra Sarkar view

Related Topics

All