The Indian Review October 1936 A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Discussion of All Topics of Interest

In the hands of the Nobodies is the hope of the future." A spiritual homage to Democracy was paid by the Master of Balliol when he delivered the William J. Cooper foundation lectures. [...] As an inevitable result of the suffering of the peasantry and the wide-spread extent of the revulsion against the prevalent tyranny of a decrepit despotism which had involved the country in a hopeless national catastrophe the old regime had scarcely any armed support to perpetuate its power. [...] The history of the railroad tariffs for this commodity described in brief will show that the rates for the carriage of the imported sugar from the ports to the interior of India that had been already reduced in 1904 received a further reduction in the next year due to competition for the port traffic between the Calcutta and Bombay lines which gave the foreign sugar a special opportunity to atta [...] In the following pages which form the concluding portion of his article on States and the Federation " the writer analyses those sections of the Government of India Act bearing on the position of the Railways under the Federal Scheme.— [ED. [...] The Princes feel that Section 45 of the Bill is open to serious objections for the reason that possible indefinite suspension of the constitution would also involve the indefinite elimination of the powers and jurisdiction of the States which were delegated to the Federation for a particular purpose which ex hypothesi has not been or cannot be carried out.