Government of Bengal Revenue Department Report on the Administration of Bengal 1926-27

, The usual arguments -were skilfully used— that dyarchy is unworkable and has failed; that Ministers are in any event mere tools in the hands of the bureaucracy and are reduced to the position of a dumb spectators of the struggle between the people and the Government ;" and that fresh injury had been heaped on the province " by the arrest of our most valuable public- workers. " On the other hand, [...] and Sangathan movements the root-cause of the misguided activities of Swami Sraddhananda, while the other side did not hesitate to attribute the crime of Abdur Rashid: to the tenets of Islam itself, and to the incitement of its religious leaders. [...] The decisions of the Unity Conference areutterly unacceptalille to both parties, and an ominous feature at the close of the year has been the opposition of various Hindu Sabhas to the decisions of the gwnraj party on communal queptions. [...] Apart from the Sivalingala incident, Government in the eyes of the Indian press could do nothing right, and thrtlugh- out the year it bed to face the ordeal of a " morning hate " from the editorial forces of almost nil the papers of the metropolis. [...] " It is the duty of every Moslem to think of hi's coonnunol posi- tion ", said the Asar-i-Jadid, " and not to surrender his rights to the mercy or whims of the Hindus," and the Sultan capped the sentiment by repeating the provfrh, " The more indulgence you show to a monkey the greater heroines his impertinence," while the Ranshan IIedayat with the full assurance of faith thus addressed its readers