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Götz mit der Eisernen Hand (German knight)
imperial knight (Reichsritter), romanticized in legend as a German Robin Hood and remembered as hero of J.W. von Goethe’s play Götz von Berlichingen. His iron hand was a substitute for a hand shot away in the siege of Landshut (1504). He served under various masters in a series of campaigns, endin...
Götz von Berlichingen (play by Goethe)
drama in five acts by J.W. von Goethe, published in 1773 and performed in 1774. The pseudo-Shakespearean tragedy was the first major work of the Sturm und Drang movement. Intending the play as a drama to be read rather than performed, Goethe published it as a shortened version of his drama Urgötz oder Die Geschichte Gottfriedens von Berlichingen mit ...
“Götz von Berlichingen mit der eisernen Hand” (play by Goethe)
drama in five acts by J.W. von Goethe, published in 1773 and performed in 1774. The pseudo-Shakespearean tragedy was the first major work of the Sturm und Drang movement. Intending the play as a drama to be read rather than performed, Goethe published it as a shortened version of his drama Urgötz oder Die Geschichte Gottfriedens von Berlichingen mit ...
Götz with the Iron hand (German knight)
imperial knight (Reichsritter), romanticized in legend as a German Robin Hood and remembered as hero of J.W. von Goethe’s play Götz von Berlichingen. His iron hand was a substitute for a hand shot away in the siege of Landshut (1504). He served under various masters in a series of campaigns, endin...
Götzen, Adolf von (German explorer)
...Lake Albert in 1864. In 1888–89 Stanley, in company with Mehmed Emin Pasha, the German explorer, traced the Semliki River to its source in Lake Edward. Finally, in 1894, a German explorer, Adolf von Götzen, became the first European to visit Lake Kivu....
Gotzkowsky, Johann Ernst (German potter)
Johann Ernst Gotzkowsky acquired the porcelain formula in 1761 and started a factory that he sold to the king in 1763, when it became the Royal factory, which, in 1918, became the State factory. It is impossible to identify 18th-century Berlin porcelain with complete certainty. The best period was from 1781 to 1786, however. Mosäik borders, elaborate diapered patterns of fish scales,......
GOU (political organization, Argentina)
Perón returned to Argentina in 1941, used his acquired knowledge to achieve the rank of colonel, and joined the United Officers Group (Grupo de Oficiales Unidos; GOU), a secret military lodge that engineered the 1943 coup that overthrew the ineffective civilian government of Argentina. The military regimes of the following three years came increasingly under the influence of......
Gou Long (Chinese hero)
...identified with the dual patron deity of the soil and harvest, Sheji, and so received sacrifices under this title. In any case, it was the god of the soil who became personified in the person of Gou Long, a hero related to Shen Nong, the legendary Chinese father of agriculture....
gouache (painting technique)
painting technique in which a gum or an opaque white pigment is added to watercolours to produce opacity. In watercolour the tiny particles of pigment become enmeshed in the fibre of the paper; in gouache the colour lies on the surface of the paper, forming a continuous layer, or coating. A gouache is characterized by a directly reflecting brilliance. When applied with bristle b...
Gouda (Netherlands)
gemeente (municipality), western Netherlands, at the confluence of the Gouwe and IJssel rivers in a fertile polder district. Chartered in 1272, it was a centre of the medieval cloth trade and was known in the 17th and 18th centuries for its clay pipes (still produced). The city is famous for Gouda cheese, still traded at a weekly cheese market, but now as a tourist attraction. Pottery, ste...
Gouda (cheese)
semisoft cow’s-milk cheese of the Netherlands, named for the town of its origin. Gouda is traditionally made in flat wheels of 10 to 12 pounds (4.5 to 5.4 kilograms), each with a thin natural rind coated in yellow paraffin. So-called baby Goudas are produced in smaller wheels of 10 to 20 ounces (310–620 grams). Gouda has a smooth-textured interior of pale ivory colour. Flavours are b...
Goudimel, Claude (French composer)
French composer noted for his settings of the metrical psalms....
goudland, Het (work by Conscience)
...Museum in Brussels in 1868. But his spendthrift manner and expensive household led him to write prolifically, sometimes to the detriment of his style. Among the many books of this last period are Het goudland (1862; “The Land of Gold”), the first Flemish adventure novel, and De kerels van Vlaanderen (1871; “The Boys of Flanders”), another historical nov...
Goudsmit, Samuel Abraham (American physicist)
Dutch-born U.S. physicist who, with George E. Uhlenbeck, a fellow graduate student at the University of Leiden, Neth., formulated (1925) the concept of electron spin, leading to major changes in atomic theory and quantum mechanics...
Goudy, Frederic W. (American printer and typographer)
U.S. printer and typographer who designed more than 100 typefaces outstanding for their strength and beauty....
Goudy, Frederic William (American printer and typographer)
U.S. printer and typographer who designed more than 100 typefaces outstanding for their strength and beauty....
gouge (tool)
...more workmanlike version that was finished by grinding. With care, flint and obsidian chisels can be used on soft stone, as shown by intricate sculptures in pre-Columbian South and Central America. Gouges—i.e., chisels with concave instead of flat sections, able to scoop hollows or form holes with curved instead of flat walls—were also used during this period. Chisels and gouges o...
Gouges, Olympia de (French writer)
French social reformer and writer who challenged conventional views on a number of matters, including the role of women....
Gough, 1st Viscount (British military officer)
British soldier prominent in the Peninsular War and in India, who was said to have commanded in more general actions than any British officer except the Duke of Wellington....
Gough, Baron (British military officer)
British soldier prominent in the Peninsular War and in India, who was said to have commanded in more general actions than any British officer except the Duke of Wellington....
Gough, Eleanora (American jazz singer)
American jazz singer, one of the greatest from the 1930s to the ’50s....
Gough Island (island, Atlantic Ocean)
island associated with the Tristan da Cunha island group....
Gough, John (British scholar)
...60 students, some of them boarders. As a teacher Dalton drew upon the experiences of two important mentors: Elihu Robinson, a Quaker gentleman of some means and scientific tastes in Eaglesfield, and John Gough, a mathematical and classical scholar in Kendal. From these men John acquired the rudiments of mathematics, Greek, and Latin. Robinson and Gough were also amateur meteorologists in the......
Gough, June (Australian singer)
Australian soprano (b. June 26, 1929, Broken Hill, N.S.W., Australia—d. Jan. 25, 2005, Sydney, Australia), during the 1950s and ’60s, was admired for her bright coloratura voice and clear diction in serious opera and stage musicals as well as in light opera. Her most successful role was as Hanna Glawari in Franz Lehár’s operetta The Merry Widow. After winning con...
Gough, Michael (British actor)
British character actor who was known for his roles in horror films as well as for his portrayal of Batman’s butler Alfred Pennyworth in four Batman films....
Gough, Sir Hubert de la Poer (British commander)
World War I commander of the British 5th Army, which bore the brunt of the great German offensive in March 1918....
Gough, Sir Hugh (British military officer)
British soldier prominent in the Peninsular War and in India, who was said to have commanded in more general actions than any British officer except the Duke of Wellington....
Gouin, Félix (French politician)
...would bring him back to power with a mandate to impose his constitutional ideas. Instead, the public was stunned and confused, and it failed to react. The assembly promptly chose the Socialist Félix Gouin to replace him, and the embittered de Gaulle retired to his country estate....
Gouin, Sir Jean-Lomer (Canadian politician and statesman)
Canadian politician and statesman who was premier of the province of Quebec from 1905 to 1920....
Goujon, Jean (French sculptor)
French Renaissance sculptor of the mid-16th century....
Goulart, João (Brazilian politician)
reformist president of Brazil (1961–64) until he was deposed....
Goulart, João Belchior Marques (Brazilian politician)
reformist president of Brazil (1961–64) until he was deposed....
goulash (food)
traditional stew of Hungary. The origins of goulash have been traced to the 9th century, to stews eaten by Magyar shepherds. Before setting out with their flocks, they prepared a portable stock of food by slowly cooking cut-up meats with onions and other flavourings until the liquids had been absorbed. The stew was then dried in the sun and packed into bags made of sheep’...
Goulburn (New South Wales, Australia)
principal city of the Southern Tablelands, southeastern New South Wales, Australia. It lies at the confluence of the Wollondilly and Mulwaree rivers. It was established on a site chosen in 1818 by the explorer Hamilton Hume and was originally named Goulburn Plains after Henry Goulburn, then under secretary...
Goulburn Islands (islands, Australia)
group of islands in the Arafura Sea off the northern coast of Arnhem Land in Northern Territory, northern Australia. They comprise South Goulburn Island (30 square miles [78 square km]), lying 2 miles (3 km) offshore across Macquarie S...
Goulburn River (river, Victoria, Australia)
river that, together with the Campaspe and Loddon rivers, drains most of central Victoria, Australia. Rising on Mount Singleton in the Eastern Highlands northeast of Melbourne in Fraser National Park, the Goulburn flows generally north for 352 miles (563 km) through the Eildon, Goulburn, and Waranga reservoirs and Lake Nagambie to join the Murr...
Goulburn River National Park (national park, New South Wales, Australia)
river that, together with the Campaspe and Loddon rivers, drains most of central Victoria, Australia. Rising on Mount Singleton in the Eastern Highlands northeast of Melbourne in Fraser National Park, the Goulburn flows generally north for 352 miles (563 km) through the Eildon, Goulburn, and Waranga reservoirs and Lake Nagambie to join the Murr...
Gould, Arthur Joseph (Welsh rugby player)
Welsh rugby player who between 1885 and 1897 won 27 caps for Wales and was captain of their first Triple Crown-winning team in 1893....
Gould, Augustus Addison (American naturalist)
naturalist and physician, pioneer of American conchology, or the study of shells, and one of the first authorities on the invertebrate animals of New England....
Gould, Benjamin Apthorp (American astronomer)
American astronomer whose star catalogs helped fix the list of constellations of the Southern Hemisphere....
Gould, Chester (American cartoonist)
American cartoonist who created “Dick Tracy,” the detective-action comic strip that became the first popular cops-and-robbers series....
Gould, Elliott (American actor)
...the free-love era—in particular, swinging and wife swapping. Carol and Bob share their new philosophy with their more inhibited best friends and potential swap mates, Ted and Alice (played by Elliott Gould and Dyan Cannon). The aggressive openness of Bob and Carol in regard to their extramarital affairs leads Ted to admit to an affair of his own. Incensed, Alice finally suggests what......
Gould, George Jay (American businessman)
George Jay Gould (1864–1923), his eldest son, also became a prominent railway owner and was president of the Missouri Pacific, the Texas and Pacific, and several other railways....
Gould, Glenn Herbert (Canadian pianist)
Canadian pianist known for his contrapuntal clarity and brilliant, if often unorthodox, performances....
Gould, Gordon (American physicist)
American physicist who played an important role in early laser research and coined the word laser (light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation)....
Gould, Harold (American actor)
Dec. 10, 1923Schenectady, N.Y.Sept. 11, 2010Woodland Hills, Calif.American actor who was a popular character actor who often played a dapper, charming gentleman. Gould guest starred in dozens of TV shows beginning in the 1960s and was perhaps best remembered for the roles of Martin Morgenst...
Gould, Jason (American financier)
American railroad executive, financier, and speculator, an important railroad developer who was one of the most unscrupulous “robber barons” of 19th-century American capitalism....
Gould, Jay (American financier)
American railroad executive, financier, and speculator, an important railroad developer who was one of the most unscrupulous “robber barons” of 19th-century American capitalism....
Gould, John (British ornithologist)
English ornithologist whose large, lavishly illustrated volumes on birds commanded ever-mounting prices among bibliophiles....
Gould, Laurence McKinley (American explorer)
U.S. polar explorer who participated in a landmark expedition to Antarctica and served (1945-62) as president of Carleton College, Northfield, Minn. (b. Aug. 22, 1896--d. June 20, 1995)....
Gould, Morton (American musician and composer)
American composer, conductor, and pianist noted for his synthesis of popular idioms with traditional forms of composition and orchestration....
Gould, Richard A. (American archaeologist)
Outside the arena of religion, material objects were minimal. A useful threefold classification for Aboriginal tools has been proposed by the archaeologist Richard A. Gould. Multipurpose tools, such as the digging stick or spear, were lightweight and portable. Appliances, such as large base stones on which food or ochre was ground, were left at a site and used whenever groups were in the......
Gould, Richard Gordon (American physicist)
American physicist who played an important role in early laser research and coined the word laser (light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation)....
Gould, Shane (Australian athlete)
Australian swimmer who won five Olympic medals and set world records in all five freestyle distances (100, 200, 400, 800, and 1,500 metres)....
Gould, Stephen Jay (American paleontologist)
American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and science writer....
Goulden, Emmeline (British suffragist)
militant champion of woman suffrage whose 40-year campaign achieved complete success in the year of her death, when British women obtained full equality in the voting franchise. Her daughter Christabel Harriette (afterward Dame Christabel) Pankhurst (1880–1958) also was prominent in the woman suffrage movement....
Gouldian finch (bird)
...tails are long and pointed, their bills stoutly conical. Grass finches live chiefly in hot open country near rivers. Several grass finches are well-known cage birds. One of the most colourful is the Gouldian finch (Chloebia, formerly Poephila, gouldiae) whose plumage is purple, gold, green, blue, and black; its face may be red, orange, or black. The star finch (Neochmia......
Goulding, Cathal (Irish political activist)
Irish political activist who became chief of staff of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) in 1962 and whose relatively moderate stance helped trigger the 1969 split between his Official IRA, which called a cease-fire in 1972, and the more militant Provisional IRA (b. Dec. 30, 1922, Dublin, Ire.--d. Dec. 26, 1998, Dublin)....
Goulding, Raymond Walter (American comedian)
Both Elliott and Goulding served in the U.S. Army during World War II. They met while working for radio station WHDH in Boston, Elliott as a disk jockey and Goulding as a news broadcaster on Elliott’s program. The on-air banter between the two was the beginning of their comedy team; their facility for comic improvisation was demonstrated on the daily Matinee with Bob and Ray program....
Gould’s Belt (astronomy)
...solar neighbourhood. The early type stars within 2,000 light-years are significantly concentrated at negative galactic latitudes. This is a manifestation of a phenomenon referred to as “the Gould Belt,” a tilt of the nearby bright stars in this direction with respect to the galactic plane, which was first noted by the English astronomer John Herschel in 1847. Such anomalous......
Goulet, Robert (American singer and actor)
Nov. 26, 1933Lawrence, Mass.Oct. 30, 2007Los Angeles, Calif.American singer and actor who possessed a rich baritone voice and matinee-idol good looks, attributes that fueled his rise to stardom as an award-winning recording artist and actor in musicals. Already a well-known television perso...
Goulette, La (Tunisia)
town located in northern Tunisia and an outport for Tunis. Situated on a sandbar between Lake Tūnis and the Gulf of Tunis, La Goulette (its Arabic name, Ḥalq al-Wādī, means “river’s throat”) is linked to the capital by a canal 7 miles (11 km) long. The main commercial port in Tunisia, it handles a large portion ...
Goulimine (Morocco)
town, southwestern Morocco. Situated in the southern Anti-Atlas mountains near the northwestern edge of the Sahara, Guelmim is a walled town with houses built out of sun-dried red clay and is encircled by date palm...
Goun (people)
...especially in Cotonou. The Yoruba, who are related to the Nigerian Yoruba, live mainly in southeastern Benin and constitute about one-eighth of Benin’s population. In the vicinity of Porto-Novo, the Goun (Gun) and the Yoruba (known in Pobé and Kétou as Nago, or Nagot) are so intermixed as to be hardly distinguishable. Among other southern groups are various Adja peoples, in...
Gounod, Charles (French composer)
French composer noted particularly for his operas, of which the most famous is Faust....
Gounod, Charles-François (French composer)
French composer noted particularly for his operas, of which the most famous is Faust....
Goupiaceae (plant family)
Goupiaceae is a small family of evergreen trees with two species growing in northeastern South America. The leaves have parallel cross veins, and the inflorescences are umbellate. The petals are long, the apical part being inflexed. The fruit is a drupe....
gourami (fish)
any of several of the freshwater, tropical labyrinth fishes (order Perciformes), especially Osphronemus goramy, an East Indian fish that is caught or raised for food; it has been introduced elsewhere. This species is a compact, oval fish with a long, filamentous ray extending from each ...
Gouraud, Henri (French general)
...I, European powers had held secret negotiations to divide among themselves the provinces of the Ottoman Empire. Syria was forcibly placed under French mandate, and Damascus fell to the army of Gen. Henri Gouraud on July 25, 1920, following the battle of Maysalūn. Damascus resisted the French takeover, and despite the French bombardment of the city in 1925, the resistance continued until....
Gouraud shading (art)
...one colour tone is used for the entire object, with different amounts of white or black added to each face of the object to simulate shading. The resulting model appears flat and unrealistic. In Gouraud shading, textures may be used (such as wood, stone, stucco, and so forth); each edge of the object is given a colour that factors in lighting, and the computer interpolates (calculates......
Gouraya, Mount (mountain, Algeria)
town, Mediterranean port, northeastern Algeria. The town lies at the mouth of the Wadi Soummam. Sheltered by Mount Gouraya (2,165 feet [660 m]) and Cape Carbon, it receives an annual average rainfall of 40 inches (1,000 mm) and is surrounded by a fertile plain. The older town, built on the mountain slope, descends to the French-built sector spread along the road to Algiers and containing the......
gourd (botany)
any of the hard-shelled ornamental fruits of certain members of the gourd family, Cucurbitaceae....
gourd bow (musical instrument)
...interplay between voice and instrument is often intricate and delicately balanced. Zulu solo songs, in earlier times, were often self-accompanied on the ugubhu gourd bow. In such bow songs, while the instrumental melody was influenced by the tone requirements of the song’s lyrics, the tuning of the bow determined the vocal scale to which the singer.....
gourd family (plant family)
the gourd family of flowering plants, belonging to the order Cucurbitales and containing 118 genera and 845 species of food and ornamental plants. It includes the gourds, melons, squashes, and pumpkins....
Gourdine, Jerome Anthony (American singer)
...of doo-wop and soul music. The Imperials were formed in New York City in 1958 as a new incarnation of a short-lived group called the Chesters. The vocal combo’s original members were Jerome Anthony Gourdine (b. Jan. 8, 1941New York, N.Y., U.S.), Clarence Colli...
Gourdon (France)
...in Alpes-Maritimes département and extending into southern Var département. The population is predominantly urban. Traditional inland towns in Alpes-Maritimes include Gourdon, Èze, Utelle, and Peille; many such towns are perched on cliffs. Their streets are narrow and paved with flagstones or cobbles; houses are built of stone and roofed with rounded tiles.......
Gourgaud, Gaspard (French historian)
French soldier and historian who accompanied Napoleon Bonaparte into exile at St. Helena and wrote important historical and biographical works about Napoleon....
Gouri, Haim (Israeli author)
...anxieties of the individual. The dominant themes of writers who had no access to collective ideals were personal ones—frustration, confusion, and alienation. The works of Yehuda Amichai and Haim Gouri are representative of the poetry of this period and of the following decades; their poems emphasize the dissolution of social coherence and express the individual devoid of a sense of......
Gourinae (bird)
The Gourinae, or crowned pigeons, consists solely of three species (genus Goura), found in New Guinea. Blue-gray birds with fanlike head crests, they are the largest of all pigeons—nearly the size of a turkey....
Gourma (people)
a Voltaic ethnic group that is chiefly centred on the town of Fada Ngourma in eastern Burkina Faso, although some inhabit northern Togo. Like the closely related Mossi, Konkomba, Tallensi, and LoDagaa, the Gurma are...
Gourmantche (people)
a Voltaic ethnic group that is chiefly centred on the town of Fada Ngourma in eastern Burkina Faso, although some inhabit northern Togo. Like the closely related Mossi, Konkomba, Tallensi, and LoDagaa, the Gurma are...
Gourmont, Remy de (French author)
novelist, poet, playwright, and philosopher who was one of the most intelligent contemporary critics of the French Symbolist movement. His prolific writings, many of which were translated into English, disseminated the Symbolist aesthetic doctrines....
Gournay, J.-C.-M. Vincent de (French economist)
...of Foreign Protestants (1752), and the following year he published Lettres sur la tolérance (Letters on Tolerance). Between 1753 and 1756 Turgot accompanied J.-C.-M. Vincent de Gournay, the mentor of the physiocratic school and an intendant of commerce, on his tours of inspection to various French provinces....
Gournay, Marie de (French writer)
...the publication of the fifth edition of the Essays, the first to contain the 13 chapters of Book III, as well as Books I and II, enriched with many additions. He also met Marie de Gournay, an ardent and devoted young admirer of his writings. De Gournay, a writer herself, is mentioned in the Essays as Montaigne’s “covenant daughter...
Gournay-sur-Aronde (France)
...during the Iron Age is France. There are not many of these ritual places, but those that existed were large complex sanctuaries with continuous use over several centuries. One of these sites is Gournay-sur-Aronde, in northern France, a sanctuary used from 300 to 50 bce. The site consisted of a square enclosed by a ditch and palisade with a number of large pits for exposing and dis...
Gourniá (ancient site, Greece)
The only settlement of this period that has been entirely excavated is a small town at Gourniá in eastern Crete. This was built on the slopes of a ridge overlooking the sea, on top of which stood a little “palace” with a small open court in the centre and a public square beside it on the sheltered landward side. Down the ridge from the palace toward the sea was a small shrine....
Gouro (people)
people of the Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast), in the valley regions of the Bandama River; they speak a language of the Mande branch of the Niger-Congo family of African languages. The Guro came originally from the north and northwest, driven by Mande invasions i...
Goursat, Édouard-Jean-Baptiste (French mathematician)
French mathematician and theorist whose contribution to the theory of functions, pseudo- and hyperelliptic integrals, and differential equations influenced the French school of mathematics....
Goursat’s theorem (mathematics)
Goursat was one of the leading analysts of his time, and his detailed analysis of Augustin Cauchy’s work led to the Cauchy-Goursat theorem, which eliminated the redundant requirement of the derivative’s continuity in Cauchy’s integral theorem. Goursat became a member of the French Academy of Science in 1919 and was the author of Leçons sur l’intégration...
gout (disease)
metabolic disorder characterized by recurrent acute attacks of severe inflammation in one or more of the joints of the extremities. Gout results from the deposition, in and around the joints, of uric acid salts, which are excessive throughout the body in persons with the disorder. Uric acid is a product of the breakdown of...
Gouthière, Pierre (French metalworker)
metalworker who was among the most influential French craftsmen in the 18th century....
gouty jatropha (plant)
A garden curiosity is tartogo, or gouty jatropha (J. podagrica), from Guatemala and Honduras; it has a short trunk that is swollen at the base, erect red clusters of small flowers borne most of the year, and three- to five-lobed palmate (fanlike) leaves. The coral plant (J. multifida) from South America is outstanding for its huge, deeply cut, 11-lobed leaves on plants, 3 m (10......
Gouvion-Saint-Cyr, Laurent, marquis de (French soldier and statesman)
French soldier and statesman who distinguished himself in the Napoleonic Wars (1800–15). As minister of war in 1817–19 he was responsible for reorganizing recruitment procedures in the French army....
Gouyn, Charles (English potter)
soft-paste porcelain made at a factory in Chelsea, London, established in 1743 by Charles Gouyn and Nicolas Sprimont, the latter a silversmith. By the 1750s the sole manager was Sprimont, from whose genius stemmed Chelsea’s greatest achievements. In 1769 the factory was sold to James Cox; and he sold it a year later to William Duesbury of Derby, Derbyshire, who maintained it until 1784,......
Gouze, Marie (French writer)
French social reformer and writer who challenged conventional views on a number of matters, including the role of women....
Gouzenko, Igor (Soviet spy)
Although the Cold War was born in Europe, Canada was involved from the start. In September 1945 Igor Gouzenko, a Soviet cipher clerk who defected to Canada, revealed extensive Soviet spying operations in Canada and the United States. These revelations, combined with Soviet intransigence at the UN and Soviet aggressiveness in central and eastern Europe—particularly the communist coup in......
Govapuri (state, India)
state of India, comprising a mainland district on the country’s southwestern coast and an offshore island; it is located about 250 miles (400 km) south of Mumbai (Bombay). One of India’s smallest states, it is bounded by the states of Maharashtra on the north and Karnataka on the east and south and by the ...
Govardhan (Indian painter)
a noted Mughal painter born into imperial service. He was the son of a Hindu painter, Bhavani Das. His work spanned the reigns of the emperors Akbar, Jahāngīr, and Shah Jahān. Several examples of his work have survived, and they are sufficient to establish him as a painter of great ability, fond of ric...
Govardhanram (Indian novelist)
Among novelists, Govardhanram stands out; his Sarasvatīchandra is a classic, the first social novel. In the novel form, too, the influence of Gandhiism is clearly felt, though not in the person of Kanaiyalal Munshi, who was critical of Gandhian ideology but still, in several Purāṇa-inspired works, tended to preach much the same message. In the period......
Gove (state, India)
state of India, comprising a mainland district on the country’s southwestern coast and an offshore island; it is located about 250 miles (400 km) south of Mumbai (Bombay). One of India’s smallest states, it is bounded by the states of Maharashtra on the north and Karnataka on the east and south and by the ...