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The Calcutta Review an Illustrated Monthly (Third Series) November 1937

1937

payer's expense produced -the proverbial" mouce."- -- To the expenditure side of the budget must be added the total cost of the introduction of - Provincial Autonomy"1937] IF WINTER COMES—BENGAL PARLIAMENT FOR EVER 136 in the Gangetic valley : that cost would include the salary and maintenance charges of the Statutory Public Services Commission the salaries the allowances the remuneration of the [...] In vain did members from the Congress Benches table propsals for the deletion of the salary of the members ; in vain did they propose the reduction of the salaries and allowances of the MinisterS; the Speaker and the President to the Congress figure of Rupees 500 plus an allowance every month. [...] The very night that the Finance Minister was piloting the Min isters' the Speaker's and the Members' Emolument Bill with pride at the prow and pleasure at the helm the Minister for Labour supported an increase in the salaries and the allowances of the members. [...] Owing to difference of opinion between the Hindu and the Moslem students living in the hostels attached to the College and the tactlessness on the part of the officiating Hindu Principal the Ministry of Education without reference either to the Governing Body of the College or to the University of Calcutta had passed a 'Orman' closing down the college sine die. [...] In the noble desire for achieving glory and fame and for the betterment of the condition of the actual tillers of the soil the present Government—the Government of the day in Bengal which may justly be described in the classical phrase of Disraeli as an organised hypocrisy"—hurried through the Legislature a measure of first rate magnitude without skill and at the sacrifice of every single princi
history
Pages
126
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120137
Segment Pages Author Actions
Higher Considerations
127-134 Ellen Horup view
“If Winter Comes—Bengal Parliament for Ever”
135-143 unknown view
A Man of Mystery: Apaji Angria
144-147 S.N. Sen view
Refutation of Idealism
148-162 Jitendra Chakravarty view
Ancient Near East and India: Cultural Relations
163-180 Bhupendranath Dutta view
Some Problems of Primary Education
181-186 S.C. Goswami view
Professional Training in Geography at the University
187-190 S.P. Chatterjee view
Life Principle in Man
191-202 Sachindra Chatterjee view
Philosophy of the Panca Yajnas
203-210 Krishnagopal Goswami view
A Visit to Brindaban
211-221 Tamonashchandra Gupta view
This Unemployment
222-230 J.S. Aiman view
The Sovereignty of Indian States
231-233 K.R.R. Sastry view
At Some and Abroad
234-235 unknown view
News and Views
236-239 unknown view
Miscellany
240-245 Benoy Sarkar view
Reviews and Notices of Books
246-247 N.K. Sinha view
In Memoriam
248-248 Hermann Jacobi view
Ourselves
249-252 unknown view

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