The Indian Quarterly Register being a Quarterly Digest of Indian Public Affairs in matters Political Social and Economic Etc. July—December 1924

These were the invasion by the Swarajists of the reformed India in 1924 Councils the advent of the Labor party into the Govern-. ment of England and the third a god-send the release of Gandhi from prison. [...] Unable to bear the strain of huge mass-movements they now made the nationalist movement the militant wing of the Congress and devloped the programme of constitutional obstruction under the caption of thee Swrajya movement." Many Old Moderates rallied to them and along with the Indepedents or men neither subscribing to the Liberal creed nor to the Congress they successfully carried o [...] There was nothing very brilliant in flib achievement of the Swarajists but the exposure of the hollowness of the reforms of the treachery of the very men whom the King and Parliament had commanded to carry the Act in the letter and in the spirit naturally made the bureaucracy white with rage. [...] But a Conservative Secretary of State turned down the unanimous recommend:0i its of the Council concurred in by the Goverment of India for the admission of Indians to the Army. [...] The larger unity between all other parties had been relegated to the committee of the Bombay " Unity Conference." The question of Hindu-Moslem unity had been handed over to another committee of the Delhi " Unity Conference." And so the immediate task before the Belgaum Congress was to sanction the Gandhi-Swarajist protocol signed on November 6th at Calcutta and the " Spinning franchise".