Landholders’ Journal. August 1932

protection to the ancient families of landholders by bringing their estates under the management of the Court of Wards" is preceded by the significant assertion that "under the existing Tenancy Laws of the country and owing to the influence of sinister propaganda among.. the tenants the landholders have been reduced to the position of mere rent collectors void of power and influence." The latt [...] Short of that however we are willing as we have shown ourselves in the past to% afford the landholders all reasonable assistance consistent with our duty to the tenantry and may in conclusion say that we are examining the possibility of cheapening the cost of the maintenance of the Record of Rights which is a condition of the use of certificate procedure" under Section 151-A of the Tenancy Ac [...] A closer federation of the district associations on a provincial and of the provincial associations on an all-India basis should be seriously considered as that should open up the possibilities of greater effectiveness which means a more effective promotion of the welfare and safeguarding of the interests of the landed nobility as well as of the tenantry and the entire countryside. [...] schools and colleges." How necessary is the remodelling of the educational system in Bengal along the lines recommended by the Dewan Bahadur may be seen from. the fact that under the recommendations of the Indian Franchise Committee Bengal's electorate will increase six times the present strength against an increase of five times in the whole of British India and the province will have the larg [...] In search of a remedy for the situation as much to help these unhappy provinces as to avoid the prospects of others being perpetually burdened with their deficits he finds one which he says is the only remaining one in the abolition of the Permanent Settlement and the tapping of the land-tax in areas under the Settlement to the same extent as in the rest of India.