Modern Review June 1949

We are well aware of the fact that this Constitution that is on the anvil of public opinion is not of the same metal as that of the Laws of the Modes and Persians and that it would undergo change for better or for worse in successive Parliments of the sovereign Republic of India as and when circumstances are deemed to be favourable for the alteration of the old order. [...] But the real question seems to be as to what Indian statesmen—we do not mean the leaders of the Indian "Yemen"--are doing to retain the friendship of the People of India ? The strong chain linking the people with their leaders that was forged by the Father of the Nation by a life-time of devoted and utterly self-less service has been deeply rusted and oOrruded by the forces of evil which our [...] That resolution In view of the attainment of complete Independenon and the establishment of the Republic of India which will symbolise that independence and give India the status smog the nations of the world that Is her rightful due her present association with U. K. and the CM-"r. [...] The Committee accordingly recommended that the provisions of Part XIV of the Draft Constitution should be amended in the light of the decisions now taken." Safeguards for Minorities In the debate that followed the most controversial speech on the amendment upholding the traditional NIulint League doctrine of communal distrust and communal separation was made by Mr. [...] its the long mm or in the short run ft is the will of the majority that will peva The remit is that the minority may get 011e OMR ha the moo of protection at the eat of the ronsittiac Often mum That Is not good enough* A. "Look at it from the point of vie% of the majoil►y.