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Landholders' Journal August 1939

1939

It commended to the special attention of the India Government the improvement and the far wider extension of edcation and prescribed as one of the serveral means for the attainment of these objects the institution of the Universities at the Presidency towns. [...] They realised that the benefactions for the establishment of the University chairs would be lacking that the residential system would be burdensome that unlike the old English foundations Oxford and Cambridge it would not have the life of the place to its advantage ; and therefore they framed it on the model of the University of London then a recent institution ; and made it into a territorial [...] After all the Calcutta University since the days of its foundation when it was looked upon as an institution in advance of the wants of the community worked to create the atmosphere and environment necessary for the dissemination of knowledge in the province. [...] There was a time when the Zemindars were readily acknowledged as the natural leaders of the people and they commanded the love and esteem of their ryots for their generous treatment and the beneficial works that they had done in the villages to improve the lot of the poor agriculturists. [...] There is now probably a dearth of sympathetic British Statesmen like the Collector of Burdwan who in January 9 1794 realised the situation and reported to the President Board of Revenue in the following words explaining the causes of inability of the Maharaja of Burdwan to pay.
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Frontmatter
i-vi unknown view
Zemindars and the War
759-760 unknown view
India and the War
761-762 unknown view
The European War
763-766 unknown view
Education and Unemployment
767-769 unknown view
Education in Japan
770-771 unknown view
Calcutta University (1857-1924)
772-775 unknown view
Have the Landlords Discharged their Duties ?
776-ii unknown view
Should Zemindars Join Politics?
779-782 unknown view
The Diplomacy of President Roosevelt
783-785 unknown view
Will Yugo-Slavia be the Next ?
786-788 unknown view
The Right Approach
789-790 unknown view
Economic Aspect of Nationalism in Modern Europe
791-793 unknown view
The Growth of Proprietary Rights in the Central Provinces
794-798 unknown view
“Sir Akbar Hyderi’s contribution to the Cause of Indian Culture”
799-800 unknown view
The Question of the Indian Diet
801-804 unknown view
A New Outlook is Wanted
805-806 unknown view
Gleanings
807-812 unknown view
Ndian India
813-818 unknown view
Activities of Landholders’ Associations
819-822 unknown view

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