The Forum September 30 1924

The fiery spokesman of the anti-Partiton agitation mellowed into the hidden inspirer of the Montagu Reforms.% Those who have watched him emerge 'from the one to the other stage will love to remeber him as the devoted worker of the Sw-deshi days of Bengal rather than as the fiftlf."September 30 1924 THE FORUM 1445 wheel in the official coach of recent times. [...] Not that the Puja has no connection with and no appeal to the rest of India; but it is undeniable that the Puja with all the wealth of its Pauranik and Tantrik eeremonials with all the grandeur of its emotional appeal with all the depth and variety of its inner significance and wtih all the warmth and intimacy of it association with social and cultural tradition is and has been organic esp [...] In fact the condition that if any contract for the transfer of a State-managed railway to a Copany were concluded against the wishes of the Assembly the Assembly would have the right to set aside the arrangements for a separate railway budget is in itself highly significant: it shows that the Government is neither prepared to endorse the Assembly's resolution in favour of State management no [...] As in.the case of failure to keep the engagement there was little prospect of realizing the dues from the weavers it became customary for the copany to engage peons to watch the progress of the weavers in their work and to prevent the sale of their goods made under engagment to other persons. [...] It runs as follows:— "Whereas it is most evident that the continuance of the Trade to the East Indies in the same Manner and Propotions as it bath been for the two years last past must inevitably be to the great detriment of this Kingdom by exhausing the Treasure thereof and melting down the coins and taking away the Lbour of the people whereby very many of the Manufacturers of this na