Rural India A Monthly Devoted to Rural Problem September 1941

As usual on such suffering humanity he has sung His praise occasions the Convocation address was as ministering Angel to the suppressed read by the representative of the L niveand the exploited and he has prayed Him sitv Sir Morris Guver in Latin the as the only hope of the lowly and the lost. [...] great Gurudev by dedicating their lives for the service of the lowliest and the And then the readers of Gitanjali-his lost in the Indian Villages. [...] \Ve also enjoyed the pleasure of visiting Shankarpur village in the neighbour-hood in compliance with the presing request of the Zamindar of the village. [...] (2) However these inter—caste groups also at times antagonised the orthodox caste spirit of some villages; and although a Brahmin might be among the students yet the fact that Harijan was also there caused a wholesale boycott on the part of the village of the student groups Again the students often 460"STUDENTS PIONEERING IN THE VILLAGE found that the village was torn with party feuds. [...] The main cause of this deplorable state of affairs is that our public men have not done their duty by the village people in focussing the attention of the public on the main difficulties of the industry.