Rural India A Monthly Devoted to Rural Problem June 1942

The change wrought in the mentality of Government authorities is all in favour of the people to make the most of the 251THE RURAL INDIA FOR JUNE 1942 opportunity and give a vigorous push to the constructive programme in the country. [...] The scheme for a 15 acre unit of dry land provide: for the production of all the foodstuffs required for a healthy ration and sufficient cotton for the clothing of the family cultivating the holding. [...] Though the Chinese performed the amazing feat of bodily removing the machinery of about 150 large factories ( weighing over 15 000 tons ) by small boats to Chungking and up the 300 steps of the city by coolies the products of the textile mills could not suffice for the needs of the army and the people and cloth became scarce. [...] The recent disturbance between the money-lender and the peasant just as the difficult relation between the Zemindar and his tenant has been felt from one end of India to the other and there is not a single province "which has not passed some new Act to protect the debtor One of the most interesting studies that awaits the agricultural economist is to ascertain the final result of these measures [...] This can be supported by the fact that originally the executive authority of a tribe was vested in the committee of elders consisting of the important persons of the clans whose number varied according to the strength and size of the tribe.