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Twenty-Fifth Session of the Indian Science Congress Association Calcutta 1938. The Second City of the Empire

1938

After it had passed the slopes of the Rajmahal Ifills the The river system Ganges receives the waters of a number of tributaries of which the Mahananda and the Atreyi are the principal. [...] Remains of the Archaean the Purana and the Dravidian epochs are generally found in the north along the Himalaya its slopes and in Assam whereas the portions of the „ancient Gondwana land with all its strata are found along the western fringe of Bengal from the valley of the Damodar up to the Rajmahal Hills and supply the mineral wealth of Bengal. [...] India proper is ordinarily divided into two zoolgical areas namely the Cis-Gangetic which The fauna of includes the whole of Indian Peninsula from Bengal the base of the Himalayas and as far east as the head of the Bay of Bengal together with Ceylon and the second comprises the forest clad Himalayas Assam and Burma as far south as Mergui and thus the whole of the Trans-Gangetic portion of Ind [...] The four centuries from the beginning of the eighth To the end of the 12th when Bengal was conquered by the Mahomedan invaders constitute the most glorious period of the history of Bengal. [...] The name of Calcutta has not yet been satisfactorily explained.32 THE SECOND CITY OF THE EMPIRE There are various theories on the origin of this name and a number of explanations of the etymology of the name The name of is current.
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Pages
280
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.141185
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-vi P. C. Bagchi view
Chapter I Bengal Past and Present
1-29 unknown view
Chapter II Calcutta Its Rise & Growth
30-46 unknown view
Chapter III The History of Municipal Administration
47-65 unknown view
Chapter IV The Social Life in Calcutta
66-90 unknown view
Chapter V General Education
91-iii unknown view
Chapter VI The University of Calcutta
113-134 unknown view
Chapter VII Professional and Technical Education
135-172 unknown view
Chapter VIII Research Organisations and Learned Societies
173-221 unknown view
Chapter IX Art and Literature
222-i unknown view
Chapter X Agriculture Trade and Industry
229-244 unknown view
Chapter XI Cliubs Hospitals and Utilities Services
245-254 unknown view
Index
255-ii unknown view

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