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The Calcutta Municipal Gazette Twenty-Third Anniversary and Independence Commemoration Number 1947

1947

OF the photographers in the city who helped me in securing the portraits of our leaders I should mention the names of the UNIVERSAL ART GALLERY of 1 Cornwallis Street for allowing me to reproduce the photographs of Khan Abdul Gaffur Khan Abul Kalam Mohammad Ali Jinnah and Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya and the BOMBAY PlIOTO SERVICE of the Chowringhee for their permitting me the reproduction of [...] To the publicist 1!! 1ndia has now come the task of tracing the develoments that have brought near realization the dreams and aspirations of generations since the Battle of Plassey (1757) when fortune placed in the hands of the factors and clerks" of the East India Company the sceptre of the Moghul. [...] Auckland Colvin who became Lieutenant-Governo othe North-Western Province (now the United Prvinces of Agra and Oudh) sometime during the early eighties of the last century brought out in course of an article in the Allahabad Pioneer the organ of the higher bureaucracy of the time in India this original feature of the British connection. [...] NEw QUALITY cm: MiND The students of D'Rozio and Richardson were in a way the crusaders of a new evangel that would reconstruct India's life in moulds imported from Europe and the British rulers were led to hope that this revolt of their proteges would confirm the political and social set-up that Britain had established on the banks of the Ganges and the Indus of the Godavary and the Cavery. [...] In Britain the glory and grandeur of an imperial destiny secured by a tiny island in the North Atlantic reconciled the many to the deprivation of their own life and blinded the privileged few to the "England of the poor " to the "black abyss which lay under the surface of England's wealth." But the few and the many in India had none of these compensations and consoltions.

government politics public policy
Pages
222
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100008
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-v Amal Home view
Dedication
1-4 Amal Home view
The Rise and Fulfilment of Indian Nationalism
5-vi Suresh Deb, Amal Home view
How it All Began
21-54 Annie Besant view
Azad Hind Movement in Europe Some Reminiscences of a Fellow-Worker of Netaji
55-56 J. K. Banerji view
The Role of Netaji in Indian Independence
57-59 Satyaranjan Bakshi view
Calcutta—the Birth-place of Indian Nationalism
60-iv Hemendra Ghose view
Bengal’s First National Song
75-75 Satyendranath Tagore view
India’s Great National Anthem
75-75 Bankim Chaterjee view
India’s Prayer
76-i Rabindranath Tagore view
India’s National Song
77-x Rabindranath Tagore view
Indian Revolutionaries and India’s Independence
89-iv Ramesh Ray view
Gandhiji’s Contribution to Indian Independence
99-ii Nirmal Bose view
Non-Violence for Modern Man Mahatma’s Message for a War-Weary World
103-107 Bidhan Roy view
Thoughts from Gandhiji
108-vi Amal Home view
From Congress Platform
113-113 Amal Home view
Memories
114-115 Bhaskar Mukerji view
“The Most Memorable Congress I Have Seen”
116-118 Pramatha Chaudhuri view
Calcutta Celebrates Independence
119-122 Arthur Roy view
Bande Mataram
123-i Amal Home view
Constitutional Developments in India
124-vi Amal Home view
Chronicle & Comment
85-85 Amal Home view
Calcutta News & Views
86-92 Amal Home view
Market Notices
93-104 Amal Home view