All-Bengal Landholders’ Journal (Covering Bengal Behar and Orissa and Assam). July 1932

Realisation of the indispensable necessity of such an organ particularly on the eve of great constitutional changes in the country has in fact been the main incentive to the enterprise of the founders of the journal. [...] So far as the editorial policy of the journal is concerned it will be prompted by one and one ideal only namely the progress of the country as a whole and of zemindars in particular consistent with the maintenance of the rights of the latter based as they are on the firm foundation of equity and justice. [...] Hindu law-books while admitting the right of the Sovereign to a share of the produce of the land nowhere mention the Sovereign as the sole proprietor of the soil. [...] In this connection his lordship said : "To those who have adopted the idea that the zemindars have no property in the soil and the Government is the actual landlord and the zemindars are the officers of the Government removable at pleasure the questions regarding the right of the zemindars to collect the internal duties on commerce would appear unnecessary. [...] unusual tact and in short by the most faithful discharge of the ChaWit functions and thus earned the esteem of all sections of that:Aloe has been manifested in various ways not the least importtint'of the Legisl'ature's expressions of appreciation of its worthy President taking the form of a gift to the Council Chamber of a portrait of the Rtija to the cost of which all members irrespective