The Indian Review July 1932 a Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Discussion of All Topics of Interest

G. A. NATESAN SINCE the passing of Labour from office and the coming into power of the so-called National Government the Tories have been making strenuous endeavours to check the prgress of India's constitutional advance and to change the Labour Government's plan of framing a Constitution for India by the method of free conference and agreement. [...] Most of the leaders of the dominant political party in India are in prison and it is a queer way to inaugurate the new reforms by a renewal of the hated Ordinances! As it is the position of the Indian Constittionalists who are opposed to civil disobedience has been rendered very'difficult by the methods pursued hitherto and we have no hesitation.in saying that the new procedure will rende [...] In so far as the legal system becomes one which commends itself to the intelligence of the individual citizen as a fair recdnciliation of the interests of each to those of all others living with him in the same society the laws of a country are to that extent not arbitrary commands but the necessary consquences of human nature and social life. [...] Catlin's book is that he employs throughout the terms of economic analysis : The object of political consumption is security ; the economic law of decrease of profits in proportion to increase of prices beyond the limit of marginal utility has its parallel in the political field in the curve of effects resulting from increased doses of force ; the objection to dictatorship is the objection to a tr [...] And wriat will be the outcome of that struggle ? A free India working together with the rest of the world for the benefit and the uplift of all hcananity ? Or a free India standing aloof from the aspirations in other parts of the world isolated from the West and viewing with suspicion all that doesn't belong to the East ? Perhaps such questions are superfluous.