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Heart-Beats

1935

Why was it so different when I went to learn English ? The turban the twisting of the mustache the fierce striking of the rattan on the table and the general inscrutability of the schoolmaster's face annihilated all my powers of calculation. [...] These passed as the cocks of the class : the others were dunces; but no pains were taken to sharpen the powers of the dull or to help the timid and the backward. [...] But though I was half-starved with fasting and the smoke of the Roman candles nearly choked me the bands European and native deafened me and the coolies who carried me threatened to hurl me into the ditch I felt the exhilaration of a Roman conqueror. [...] It was directed against the caste system against the evils of.early marriage the burning of widows and sought the emancipation of women from the seclusion darkness and ignorance of traditional orientalism. [...] The social ostracism induced by joining the Brahmo Somaj and the irregularities of the family in which he lived led the young B4ahmo and his wife to long for a home of their own.
technology medicine science
Pages
277
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.142384
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-xxxvii P.C. Mozoomdar view
Heart-Beats
1-232 unknown view
Index
233-238 unknown view
Mr. Mozoomdar’s Books
i-ii unknonw view

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