Modern Review December 1941

The Annual Report of the Committee of the Marwari Chamber of Commerce Calcutta for the year 1940 which has just been published makes impressive reading. [...] P. P. Sitighal the aquatic ... thanked on behalf of the Allahabad University for contributing to the tournament. [...] It will he recalled that the resolution was moved in the Board in May last when a member raised a point of order asking for the ruling of the Chairman on the question whether members would he permitted free expression of their views and whether they would be protected from the operation of the Defence of India Rules. [...] The Chairman yesterday placed before the Board the following letter received from the Secretary to the Government conveying the view of the Government on the point.. [...] A Solitary Indian Secretary to Government of India In the Central Legislative Assembly Sir A. H. Ghaznavi said only one of the 17 Secretaries to the departments of the Government of India was an Indian and asked if the Government contemplated any steps to remedy this so as to improve the proportion of Indians to Europeans.