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The Calcutta Review an Illustrated Monthly (Third Series) April 1942

1942

Taking advantage of these circustances speculation and the instinct for profiteering stepped in to1942] ECONOMIC DISTRESS AND THE ALIENATION 5 complicate the situation and the position of the labouring classes in the larger towns and of the poorer classes in the countryside steadily grew from bad to worse. [...] 1915-1917 At the very beginning of this article reference was made to the two factors which in the opinion Of the present writer were mainly responsible for the worsening of the economic condition of our motheland during and immediately after the war of 1914-18. [...] Coming to the most noteworthy individual instances there was an increase of 121 per cent in the price of rice in Bihar ; of 99 per cent in the price of wheat of 133 per cent in the price of barley and of 126 per cent in the price of gram in Bihar and Orissa ; of 187 per cent in the price of arhar in Delhi and of 168 per cent in the price of gur in Sind and Baluchistan. [...] Mahatma Gandhi realised only too well the abject poverty and the deep misery of India's children and that is why in the course of the Non-Co-operation Movement the emphasis was shifted almost imperceptibly and perhaps unconsciously from the redress of the grievances immediately responsible for it to the removal from the national point of view of the far more important economic evils under which [...] Under the virile inspiration of Tagore the ambassador of internationalism Mahatma Gandhi the champiOn of the oppressed Jawaharlal Nehru the prophet of freedom and Radlikrishnan the cultural revolutionary India bared her heart to the spirit of the Renaissance.' The indications are all present.
history
Pages
120
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120137
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-vi unknown view
Economic Distress and the Alienation of the Masses (1914-20)
1-28 H.C. Mookerjee view
Cultural Re-In Terpretation
29-50 Cyril Modak view
The Humanistic Reaction the Romantic Poets and Aristotle—s Poetics
51-72 Bhawanisankar Chowdhury view
Discipline : Old and New
73-78 Kalinganath Ghosh view
Froebel and His Views on Education Through Sense-Perception
79-90 Debendra Dasgupta view
News and Views
91-95 unknown view
Miscellany
96-104 unknown view
Reviews and Notices of Books
105-109 unknown view
Ourselvs
110-114 unknown view

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