The Calcutta Review October 1918

At the same time as the Viceroy reminded the Legislative Council the other day the proposals made by the authors of the Report have carried the political"366 The Calcutta Review advance right up to the line beyond which their principles forbid them to go. [...] The circumstances of his life have been such as to favour the development of the fatalist spirit; he has seen no obvious connexion of cause and effect in the phenomena that control the yield"372 The Calcutta Review of his crops and the incidence of disease; all these things. [...] The authors hold strongly that the pace of advance must conform with the progress made in the general education of the people and with the progress of the political education both of the masses and their woulbe representatives. [...] The number of non-official members is a be so largely increased that it is impciskible to form any estimate of their calibre or in the absence of knowledge of the composition of the Councils to anticipate the character of the legislatures they will constitute. [...] In the year 1855 exasperated beyond the limits of endurance by the exactions of the money-lenders and the landlords And alarmed by threats of imprisonment for debt at a time400 The Catena ' Review when the advent of the railway was holding out the prospect of lucrative employment they rose in a body 20.000 strong determined to march to Calcutta some 150 miles distant in order to lay their grie