He is not interested in the fate of kings princes and prelates and he chooses to sing " Of the maimed of the halt and the blind in the rain and the cold." He the modern poet asks :. how shall we turn to little things And listen to the birds and winds and streams Made holy by their dreams Nor feel the heart-break in the heart of things ?" —W. [...] What can excel the gorgeous imagery and the rich sense of colour of Old Ships the haunting pathos of Yasimin the warmth the sensuousness the fatalism of The Golden Journey to Samarkand or the sheer babaric passion of the Queen's Song? [...] So far as judicial functions were cocerned they were content to rely on the provisions of the Madras Village Panchayats Regulation 1816 and the Madras Village Courts Act 1888 which authorised the assembling of Panchayats and convening of Village Bench Courts for the settlement of particular civil suits on the application of the parties and encourage the operation of these enactments whereve [...] Montague the then Secretary of State for India in the following terms : " The policy of His Majesty's Government with which the Government of India are in coplete accord is that of the increasing of association of Indians in every branch of 11 For all these seven iprinLiples see para 39 of the Resolution on Local Self-Government."46 THE ALLAHABAD UNIVERSITY STUDIES the association and the g [...] The domain of urban and rural Self-Government is the great training ground from which political progress and a sense of responsibility have taken their start and we felt that the time had come to quicken the advance to accelerate the rate of progress and thus to stimulate the sense of responsibility in the average citizen and to enlarge his experience." Montague and Chelmsford Report.
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