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The Journal of the Anthropological Society of Bombay

1930

The topgraphical references in the poems the names of rivers towns and villages can be generally identified and we can safely say that the scene was laid on the banks of the river Ajoy in the district of Burdwan. [...] The importance of the Gandhabanik community in the social life of Bengal is further borne out by the stories of worship of Sasthi and Satyanaraini two inferior deities of the Hindu Pantheon. [...] The invention of the stories of Manasa and Chandi and the adoption of Vaishnavism were the two chief things by which the fallen mercantile community of Bengal tried to elevate themselves after their influence had ceased with the diappearance of trade and commerce. [...] When the Bisarjan or farewell to the deity is about to be over the Karta of the house carries the barandala or the welcoming basket which was placed before the goddess since the beginning of the puja on his head to the inner compartment of the house. [...] Inspite of the decadence of trade and degeneration of the trading castes the sailing ships of Bengal carried on trade on high sea well into the middle of the last century when they disappeared completely with the advent of the steam boats.
anthropology archaeology
Pages
133
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120155
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-i unknown view
Frontmatter
ii-iv unknown view
Bengal Traditions of Trade and Commerce
431-458 Satindra Roy view
Tibetan Folklore from Kalimpong in the District of Darjeeling in the Eastern Himalayas
458-467 Sarat Mitra view
On the Cosmological Myth of the Birhors and its Santali and American Indian Parallels
468-478 Sarat Mitra view
A Note on the Prevalence of Cannibalism among the Birhors of Chota Nagpur
479-483 Sarat Mitra view
Prophylactic Disguise for Averting Evil
484-489 Shams-Ul-Ulama, Jivanji Modi view
Some Hindu Superstitions—II
489-497 S.S. Mehta view
Differences between the Avestic and the Vedic Systems of Fire-Worship and Some Noteworthy Illustrations of Anthropology Being an Indispensable and Only Aid to the Correct Interpretation of Old Aryan Ideas and Ideals and Primitive History and as Exposing the Gross Absurdity of the So-Called Linguistic and Literary Interpretations Thereof by Eminent Orientalists
498-515 R.K. Dadachanji view
A Note on the Original Home of and the Indian Folklore about the Cocoanut
516-524 Shams-Ul-Ulama, Jivanji Modi view
The Indian Crow
525-535 Satindra Roy view
The Sky in Children’s Fancy
536-555 Satindra Roy view
Three Amulets
555-556 R.K. Gyani view

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