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The Rural India February 1940

1940

Destruction of village industries and the continuous drain of the Under the new 'Back to Village' scheme matefial and intellectual resources of the the cities will not denude the villages of their village by the city has rendered the village the raw materials and manufacture them through abode of poor leaderless and cheerless people. [...] There was a time when the shall be committing a great mistake if by prosperity of a district was gauged at the comparing the proportion of cattle to popultime of revision of the rates of assessment tion in India to that obtaining in the western from the increase in the number of bulloccountries we come to the conclusion that carts in the country side. [...] uneducated masses but also by the educated In order to make the department fully sections of the community and it is therefore function as the custodian of the resources of essential that sound public opinion be creathe national wealth it is necessary that it ed about the rightful place of the forests in should receive coperation from all quarters the economic plan of the country. [...] it is up to us to give such a change in the Similarly removal of forest vegetation from line of the present administration of the d the areas on the banks of rivers has spelled department so as to satisfy the needs of the ruin of many a village and thousands of tons people in the largest measure without the of rich soil is day to day washed away from over exploitation or destruction of the forest [...] giving relief to the educated youths of the In brief time has conic when there country is engaging the attention of both should be a distinct departure in the adminithe Governments and the people it is but tration of the Forest Department so that it natural to suggest sonic of the forest indutries specially the small dimension stock may help in the development of all such industries whi
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Segment Pages Author Actions
The Right of a Living Wage
57-61 unknown view
Notes
62-65 unknown view
Spinning Wheels V. Mills
65-66 M.K. Gandhi view
True Service
67-69 M.N. Shitole view
New Swadeshi Movement
70-70 Kaka Kalelkar view
Our Cattle Problem and Now We Can Solve it
71-ii H.S. Kaujalgi view
Forests and Rural Uplift Movement
73-76 Ram Sharma view
Co-Operative Farming
76-78 K.S. Srikantan view
Bee-Keeping in India
79-81 R.N. Muttoo view
How Germany Trains Her Younger Generation
82-85 M.M. Shanbhag view
Dynamics of Mutual Aid in Villages
86-88 P.P. Saradhi view
“Bag Vilas” of Shiv Kavi
89-93 R.R. Bhalerao view
A Glimpse of an Ideal Village
93-94 K.S. Kelkar view
Reports of Rural Development
97-104 unknown view
Rural News
105-111 unknown view
Backmatter
i-i unknown view

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