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The Indian Review December 1949 a Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Discussion of All Topics of Interest

1949

Even the counting of these names brings to mind vividly the memories of long lives spent in the service of the country on the national platform on the High Court Benches at the bar and in Legislative Assemblies. [...] Possibly because of the Society's emphasis on the spirit rather than the letter of belief Quaker ideals and procedures have remained remarkably consistent and undeviating since the founding of the Society in England in the mid-seventeenth century. [...] This popularity ironically proved the undoing of the Quaker-administered government for the time came in the mieighteenth century when the Quakers were out-voted by others in the colony on the question of rendering armed assistance to the British in war against the French and American Indians. [...] The mass of the people in India has not the means to save in any considerable measure ; but those persons of the middle classes who have the means to save they are generally quite careful about securing the economic independence of the family as far as possible and perhaps among them the tendency is to curtail unduly consumption so as to save more. [...] The division of the country placed raw jute overnight in the position of a foreign commodity for the Indian mills which have to suffer a great deal on the account of procuring raw jute the adverse effects of which could be seen in the confusion that prevailed in the matter of Indo-Pakistan Jute trade.
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Pandit Jawaharlal at the Bar
617-622 Kailas Katju view
Impressions of My world Tour
622-624 S.N. Agarwal view
The Russo-Yugoslav Tension
624-626 K. Sharma view
Quakers in America
626-629 Jane Jacobs view
Saving and Spending
629-630 V.R. Natarajan view
From My Notebook
631-632 Bee view
Crisis in Indian Jute Industry
633-636 G.P. Gupta view
Musings in Rhyme
636-637 Harindranath Chattopadhayay view
Singapore Then and Now
637-639 E. Freeman view
Gurukula University at Kangri
639-640 Hem De view
Guardianship of ‘India’
641-648 R. Javanthinathan view
Home and Foreign Affairs
649-653 An Indian Journalist view
The World of Books
654-655 B. Natesan view
Diary of the Month
656-656 B. Natesan view
Topics from Periodicals
657-662 B. Natesan view
Indians Overseas
663-664 B. Natesan view
Multum in Parvo
665-672 B. Natesan view