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

In other words the war has lowered the price of the raw article to half the pre-war rate bringing therby acute distress upon the cultivator while it has increased the price of that part of the manufactured article which is sold in the open market to the enhancement of manufacturing profits. [...] What really 'natters for the purposes of the present discussion is that one of the effects of the Government exchange policy was the estrangement perhaps the discontent of a certain section of Indian business and its result the sympathy it felt and the support it lent to the Non-Co-operation Movement. [...] In the Marxist system the differentium betwfen the two classes is furnished by the surplus value." The system envisaged in the present study finds the differethinm in the level of income-cum-rank. [...] The " familistic patterns " of the peasant the workingman the clerk the schoolmaster the lawyer the medical practitioner the landed prprietor the industrialist the bank manager the executive official and so on are engaged each in cultivating its own orientations of superiority to somebody down below. [...] Like La Fontaine of old France these Indian classes " (?) and non-party intellectuals have their eyes and ears open as much to the "lion " as to the other " animals of the forest " namely the court the nobility the clergy the bourgeoisie the peasant and the petty folks.