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The Calcutta Review an Illustrated Monthly (Third Series) March 1923

1923

'What is the head and front of Hegel's offending ? Is it the teaching that the individual cannot be a moral being without subordinating himself to the social whole ? Does the spirit of self-sacrifice endanger the peace of the world and the insistence on one's right to do what one pleases provided that the same right of others is not infringed bring about the millenium ? It is true that in Hege [...] 119 wide of the mark for the purpose of the present discussion to assume that the number of rice-eaters is equivalent to the proportion which the area under rice hears to the areas under wheat and millets put together. [...] It is said that during the time of Shaista Khan who was the Viceroy of Bengal in the seventeenth century the price of rice having fallen to eight maunds for the rupee he had one of the gates of the city of Dacca closed and an inscription put thereon that the gate._ should be opened only by the person during whose administration the price of rice would again fall to that level. [...] In 1869 the Committee appointed by the GoverA-tient of India to revise the customs tariff recommended the raising of the duty on grain to serve as a check on the exportation of a staple article of food during a period of famine. [...] It appears from the Report of the Prices Enquiry Committee "1923] ECONOMIC ASPECT OF INDIAN RICE EXPORT TRADE 467 that in 1919-1920 the Government of Bengal acted on this policy and persistently refused to agree to the exportation of rice from the province of Bengal as long as the possibilities of high prices of food-grains lasted in spite of repeated requests from the Government of India for the
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Pages
241
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120137
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-434 unknown view
Four British Thinkers on the State—IV
435-445 Haralal Haldar view
Economic Aspect of the Indian Rice Export Trade
446-467 Salburd view
Marriage and Family Life Among the Arabs
468-485 S. Bukhsh view
Fifty-Eight Years’ Fight With Malaria VI
486-509 Pramathanath Bose view
A Type of Sedentary Game in the Punjab
510-513 Hemchandra Das-Gupta view
The Contact of Indian Art with the Art of Other Civilisations’ I.
514-530 Stella Kramrisch view
II in India
531-549 Stella Kramrisch view
Vengeance is Mine
550-552 Kanaiyalal Munshi view
Railway Management
553-572 S.P. Mukerjea view
Teaching of Hygiene
573-580 Rameschandra Ray view
The Blue-Eyed Stranger
581-585 M. Khundkar view
The American University
586-594 P.M. Buck view
In and Around Ajmere
595-598 unknown view
Reviews
599-612 N.C.B. view
State Versus Comapny Management of Indian Railways and Railway Expenditure
613-626 S.C. Ghose view
Ourselves
627-672 unknown view

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