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Rural India A Monthly Devoted to Rural Problem September 1942

1942

As is the experience of Mahatmaji himself that a foreign power stands in the wav of Hindu-Muslim unity and makes the unity of the two commnities impossible the same power has also imperceptively created clashing interests between a Zamindar and his tenants and made the working of democratic instittions impossible in the villages. [...] And with his sense of self-respect and selhonour crushed by the weight of misery and poverty of centuries the time that the villager regains with his lost sense of self-respect and learns to suffer death for his and the honour of his village is a very distant one. [...] Better death in the discharge of one's own duty; the duty of another is full of danger."" NOTES FAILURE OF POPULAR MINISTRIES IN INDIAN STATES IN the wake of Rural Development movment and the formation of Congress Miistries in provinces some of the progressive Indian States in imitation to the British Indian Provinces created the so—called popular Ministries and entrusted the administration [...] Most of the present day workers in the political as well as constructive nation—building spheres of the country are those who came out of the colleges and educational instittions at the call of Mahatma Gandhi in 1920-21 in the heat of the movement of Non-violent Non-cooperation A similar movement and in many respects more patrotic in its appeal and intensity is sweeping the country at the [...] First of all the primary objecive is stated as "Getting to know our fellomen and women in the villages we work in and of establishing a bond of friendship trust and confidence." Again "Our long-term objective is to raise the standard of living of the villagers and their cheris by a small margin." In another place the objective is stated as follows : "To take advantage of the opportunity
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Frontmatter
i-iv G.K. Puranik view
Gandhiji on Village Swaraj
393-398 unknown view
Notes
398-400 unknown view
The College Meets the Village
401-403 Ralph Keithahn view
Principles of Rural Reconstruction
404-415 H.S.M. Ishaque view
The Singing Voice of Mother India
416-421 Devendra Satyarthi view
Is the Village Money Lender a Necessity ?
422-426 Govind Chitnis view
Rural Reconstruction—Agriculture
426-428 K.S. Srikantan view
Rural Reconstruction in Mysore a Five-Year Plan (A Note)
428-430 H.B. Gowda view
Rural Development Reports
431-435 unknown view
Gleaning
435-438 unknown view
Reviews
439-441 unknown view
Backmatter
i-i unknown view

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