South Indian Bronzes : O.C. Gangoly, issued by Indian Society of Oriental Arts, Calcutta.
... Early Cultural Writings "South Indian Bronzes" The discovery of Oriental Art by the aesthetic mind of Europe is one of the most significant intellectual phenomena of the times. It is one element of a general change which has been coming more and more rapidly over the mentality of the human race and promises to culminate in the century to which... eyes of the people, and it is gratifying to find that an increasing amount of pioneer work is being done in this respect, although still all too scanty. The book before us, Mr. O. C. Gangoly's South Indian Bronzes , must rank as one of the best of them all. Southern India, less ravaged than the North by the invader and the vandal and profiting by the historic displacement of the centre of Indian culture... aesthetics in Europe have swung round to an opposite extreme. × This refers to the plate in South Indian Bronzes —Ed ...
... the Titanisms of the human spirit and for the Titanisms of the human intellect. 42 October, 1915 (From a book review in the Arya.) The book before us, Mr. O. C. Gangoly's South Indian Bronzes, must rank as one of the best of them all. Southern India, less ravaged than the North by the invader and the Vandal and profiting by the historic displacement of the centre of Indian culture ...
... from abroad. A conflict between two sections of a common Indian population is all that can be on the cards. 33. Op. cit., p. 215. Page 117 In a review of O.C. Gangoly's South Indian Bronzes, Sri Aurobindo has some more definite words about the sections. He also touches once more on the subject of Aryan and non-Aryan, which usually implies an Aryan invasion of India. The first ...
... its outward means of self-expression.... The divine self in us is its theme, the body made a form of the soul is its idea and its secret. 32 Again, in a review of O. C. Gangoly's South Indian Bronzes, Sri Aurobindo makes the point more tellingly still: These deities are far removed indeed from the Greek and the Christian conceptions; they do not live in the world at all, but in ...
... Page 777 was deleted from the first edition: "We propose to deal hereafter with the most important of these publications, the translation of the Mahanirvana Tantra." "South Indian Bronzes". Published in the Arya in October 1915 and in Views and Reviews since 1941. "God, the Invisible King". Published in the Arya in July 1917 and in Views and Reviews since ...
... Snoy, Peter, 87fn. Soma, 86, 104, 118 Page 149 Some Aspects of Ancient Indian Culture, 87 Southern India, 1, 24 South Indian Bronzes, 118 . Southerners, 1 Spokes, 55 Spooner, 103 Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust, iii Sri Ma - Sri Aurobindo Milan Kendra, iii Srinjayas, 126 Sriramadesikan ...
... 1914), "The Significance of 'Arya'" (September 1914), "On Meditation" (October 1914), "On Universal Consciousness" (January 1915). Part Two (Reviews): "Hymns to the Goddess" (May 1915), "South Indian Bronzes" (October 1915)-, "God the Invisible King" (July 1917), "Rupam" (April 1920), "About Astrology" (November 1917). - In SABCL all the articles of Part One are included in Section VII of Volume ...
... of a greenish stone, is almost two metres high and one and a half Page 177 The temple atop Shankaracharya Hill metres in diametre. Behind it stands a South Indian bronze: a statue of Nataraja —Shiva in the dancing pose. He is shown four-armed. The upper hands hold the drum and the fire; and the upraised palm of a third hand gives blessing and reassurance, while ...
... practising lawyer, art was his first love. As the general secretary of the Indian Society of Oriental Art, the Rupam magazine stands testimony to his brilliance. In countries like China and Burma (Myanmar), he gave lectures on Indian Art. Among the many books he wrote on art, are: Vedic Painting, South Indian Bronze, Masterpiece of Rajput Paintings, and his research work on music, Ragas and Raginis... lyer, an eminent and brilliant advocate of the Madras High Court and Sri Aurobindo's disciple. He had seen Sri Aurobindo at the Surat Congress in December 1907 where he had gone as a volunteer from South India. Later, in March 1942, Sri Aurobindo sent him as his personal envoy to the Congress leaders to urge them to accept Sir Stafford Cripps proposal. 99. Suchi and Sarala were a French couple.... He graduated from the Calcutta University with honors in 1910 and from Oxford in 1914. He became secretary to the Artistic section of the League of Nations. Later on he became Nizam Professor of Indian Studies at Vishvabharati, and then Bageswari Professor of Comparative Arts at Calcutta University. He gave brilliant lectures from 1923 to 1943. After Partition, he went to Pakistan and became Pakistan's ...
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