The Calcutta Review An Illustrated Monthly (Third Series) May 1946

The Collector of Pooree at once desired the officers making enquiries to discontinue operations ; the extent to which the crops had failed and the consequent failure of the supply of food on which the population had to rely were not made known to the higher authorities." The Board advanced the following arguments to justify their policy of stopping enquiries about loss of crops9 :— CO They had e [...] A terrible famine is now certain.*** The fine half of the mouth of February 1866 was in fact the most critical period in the history of the famine and the Government of India agreed with the opinion of the Famine Oentraisioners that " the time had come when.grain should have been imported for the purpose of paying in food the part of the popplation which was willing to tabour at the public [...] The Jews were exposed to the new ideas' and conflicting cultural currents of Hellenistic influence %rhich culminated in the destruction of Jerusalem by the armies of the Homan Empire.] 9461 THE PROBLEM OF PALESTINE 61 The master of the land in which there were Jews an Alexander a Ptolemy a Sehicid or a Roman ruled by the force of Greek culture. [...] The last stage of the history of Palestine was reached in 1516 when the war between the Ottoman Sultan and the Maineltakites of Egypt resulted in the tranference of the country to the dominion of the Turks. [...] This movement took its rise in Germany and Austria and in due course of time spread far and wide in Rumania France and Russia where the May Law promulgated with the assent of the Tsar on the 3rd May 1882 led to the creation of a number of fresh ghettos the cooping up of the Jews within the towns and the arbitrary confiscation of their rural property.