The Indian Review July 1946 A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Discussion of All Topics of Interest

The one is the use of the ordinary public cinema for the exhibition of films of educational and artistic value to audience of children drawn from the schools ; the other is the use of the film in the classroom. [...] During the federal negotiations the sphere of paramountcy was to be kept separate from the sphere of federal Government and"372 THE INDIAN REVIEW t JULY 1946 section 285 of the Government of India Act 1935 clearly excludes the rights and obligations of the Crown in relation to an Indian State from the purview of the Federation. [...] The Statement made by the Cabinet Mission provides that with the attainment of indepedence by British Lidia the relationship which has hitherto existed between the Rulers of the States and the British Crown will no longer be possible that paramountcy can neither be retained by the British Crown nor transferred to the new Government and that in a free India whatever the form of Government the [...] In the time of the first Han dynasty at the end of the second century B. C. Chinese generals had gradually extended the empire to cover the fringes of the desert occupying Kashgar and even crossing the Pamirs to the Laxartes the site of the colonies of Alexander. [...] So early as the middle of the nineteenth century Swami Dayanand strongly advocated many of those reforms which are now the sheet-anchor of social and religious reformers of the present day such as the removal of untouchability and caste distinctions abolition of child-marriage the unification of Hindu society and the Pstahlishment of Hindn solidarity.