Indian Antiquary Vol 41

SR No.: 032533
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Richard Carnac Temple, Devadatta Ramkrishna Bhandarkar
Publisher: Swati Publications
Publication Year: 1984
Total Pages: 320
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 39 MB

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY
[DECEMBER, 1912.
seless.-of what general utility can a mup of degree of la:itude is similarly inconvenient, India be on so very small a scale ?
whilst it is slightly inaccurate, since there degree. For so vast a territory, a very large scale map vary with the distance from the equator-from or series of mape is not here advocated. For 68-7 tu 694 statute miles, inost European ountries, maps on scale of! It is now understood that the Indian Survey between 30 aod 35 miles to an inch are most bas agreed to proceed in preparing & map, or satisfactory. And so long ago 18 1838 the Suciety series of sheets covering India, on a scale of onefor the Promotion of Useful Knowledge had millionth, that is of 15 miles 6 furlongs 67! published on a scale of 34+ miles to an inch- yards to an inch. But this will take years to
India in eleven parts with an Index Mup." Complete, and though most valuable for certain These were sectional' mapa, engraved by the purposes, it will fill sixty sheets or thereabouts brothers James and Charles Walker, and were uf 20 by 16 inches and rather expensive and beautifully clear and useful. The work seems tu cun brous for general use. Menn while a less have been well received, for & revised edition was launbitious but practically neeful werk je mnoh issued by E. Stanford, 1812-45, coutaining some wanted in the library and at the desk-for the twenty maps-including surrounding countries; general reader, the traveller, the secretary and and again, a last and carefully corrected and the district official. improved edition, containing twenty-six mape Now such an atlas could be constructed on a was published by the same film in 1861. This cale of 32 miles to an inch; the maps would be useful work continued long in use, and it is to bu on the scheme of Johnston's and the Gazetteer regretted that such a work was not kept up to atlas,-not mere sectional, mape, but of provinces Ante and reproduced. The inaps varied little in or halves of such in some cases. They would size froin 13 by 10 inches inside borders, and so fill only eighteen or nineteen double page mape had double the area of those in the new Gazetteer of a size that would bind in a volume about 11 Atlas: and the thin bound volume was about 14 | by 16 inches. The space for names, etc.. would inches high by 9" wide.
be double that on Joboston's and four times Decimal sculus aru now the faehion for maps, that on the Gazetteer maps, thus providing for a but with our npits of the inch and mile, they very large increase of their numbers. The work afford no facilities for estimating distances. might be accompanied by useful small mapa of The Indian Great Trigonometrical Survey beets physical, meteorological, ethnograpbical, and are on a 4 miles to the inch scale, and any map other features, plans of towns, etc., of which the on this scale, or its subdivisions o? 8, 16, etc., largest would go two on & page. Shall we see iniles, affords a ready means of catimating dis such an Atlus ? tances. Making the scales as measures of a
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BUOK-NOTICE. HISTORY OF BENGALI LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE| One striking feature that he discloses is that by DINRER CHANDRA 9XN. Printed by the Caloutta the early literature was not the expression of Vaiversity, 1911.
poetical ideas by the then cultured classes, nor This is a large work of more than a thousand was it composed by them for the people at large, pages, based on the lectures delivered by the because those classe8 were enthralled by Sanskrit author as Reader in Bengali Language and learning and fell afterwards under the influence Literature at the Oaloutta University during the of the Arabio and Persian literature of their months January to April 1909, and deals with Mohammedan patrons; but it was the welling up the literature of Bengal and the language in its of the poetic feelings that swayed the hearts and literary aspect down to the middle of last cen. minds of the populace, feelings that did not flow tury. It is clear on every page that the work has within classical channels, but arose generally been one of great devotion on the author's part, from and mirrored home life and daily interests. and he has made diligent enquiries to trace out in the first chapter the earliest conditions in All particulars, whether great or sinull, that might Bengal are idealised in the belief that pre-bistorie help to increase or elucidate our knowledge of the Bengal was Aryan, a belief for which the author's literature,
devotion may merit pardon. Ancient Bengal
1 Sosles in millionths are related to the motrioal system, the metro being supposed to be exactly the tex millionth part of the quadrant from the Eqnator to the Polo. This is now found to be very nearly 10,001,776 metres, so that the metro is shorter than was intended.