Landholders’ Journal March 1939

What is really wanted is a powerful publicity which will remove misconceptions make the services of the Zemidars known to the people familiarise the intelligentsia with the real and potential capacity of the Zemindari system to promote national welfare meet all anti-zemindari criticisms ; and in various other ways increase the popularity of the Zemindars as a class and the Zemindari system as [...] The latest annual report of the Commissioner of Police Calcutta contains the following observations :-- The open preaching of communist ideas and the desirability of establishing a workers state on the Russian model the display of commnist symbols and the shouting of communist slogans were no less marked and no less frequent than in previous recent years At the same time there was a marked te [...] The Congressite and the Krishak Paoja Governments of the different provinces have found it easy tactics to pass measures.against the Zemindars ; this they believe will serve the double purpcHe of securing the votes of the majority and at the same time doing it at the least possible cost. [...] The difference between the Zemindars and their critics lies in the fact that while the:former shoulder the arduous responsibilities of supporting the social and economic order of the country as prevails amongst the agricultural people the latter take the license to freely indulge in disruptive and revolutionary propaganda and thus directly lay the axe at the very root of the social order. [...] It is surprising that the detrimental character of the Act to the credit of the Agricultural Debtors has still esc iped the notice of the -Government.