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The Calcutta Review An Illustrated Monthly (Third Series) November 1944

1944

Our deplorable modesty which was satisfied by the mere amassing of details and the realization of detailed schemes is the main cause of the amorphous state of the towns 'all over the world and also of the conditions in rural districts where people have to live below the level of the subsistence minimum. [...] the investigation of these possibilities including the necessary surveys the designing of the towns and the conception of the broad outlines of the other schemes. [...] (iii) It differentiates between types of economies in different parts of the world.' In view of the great volume of criticisms against the three classical stages of hunting pasturing and agriculture and the serious difficulties involved in discovering the main-stages in the ggneral economic development of mankind in the prehistoric past some anthropcJ gists have abandoned-the idea altogether [...] It was admitted that the rise in the price of rice was " mainly due to shortage of yield and to falling off in the imports from Burma due to lack of shipping space as a result of the war situation." But people were kept in the dark regarding any attempt on the part of the Government to save the people by arranging to secure supplies from Burma which was then a part of the British Empire and had n [...] The denial policy was responsible for aggravating tho situation and the outside world was kept in ignorance about the grim ordeal of the peopb of Bengal because of a famine *which was not the result of the caprice of the clouds but was man-made.
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Pages
35
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120137
Segment Pages Author Actions
Management and Control of British Industries in India—II
29-32 H.C. Mookherjee view
Planning India’s National Resources
33-36 E. A. Gutkind view
Primitive Economics
36-41 Nabendu Datta-Majumder view
The Bengal Famine
42-48 Hemendra Ghose view
Round the World
48-50 S.K.C. view
Reviews and Notices of Books
50-52 S.C. Sen view
Ourselves
53-57 unknown view
Calcutta University Publications
i-iii unknown view

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