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The Calcutta Review an Illustrated Monthly (Third Series) February 1947

1947

Your beautiful city with the crown of wild olive spran round its brow stande at the confluence of the sacred rivers the Ganges and the SoneI myself stand at the 'conflux of two eternities—the eternity of the past and the eternity of the future. [...] Graduates of the Universitof Patna you are the inheritors of the -unfulfilled renown Qf the genius the greatness and the love of ouancestors. [...] The individual nominated to represent the British administration' in India fully aware of the importance of the revenue from opium consumed in India after the pracIical disappearance of the export trade proposed and carried an amendment substituting legitimate " for " medical and scientific." The reasons advanced for the above apparently trivial amenment in the language of the Resolutions an [...] -Porter; the leader of the American delegation to call a 'world conference te4 thrash out before the eyes of the public the problem of the treffiO in opium and in narcotic drugs which brings us to the fourth and last of the instances where the Indian opium policy was in conflict with majority world opinion. [...] The nominee of the British administration at this Conference would not agree either to the Japanese recommendation or the American suggestion in regard to the limitation of the cultivation of the poppy.
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Pages
90
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120137
Segment Pages Author Actions
Patna University Convocation Adress
91-100 P.N. Banerjee view
Opium at Geneva 1921-1925
101-108 H.C. Mookerjee view
Eight Years at Rajshahi (1909-17)
109-124 Nripendrachandra Banerjee view
Abolition of the Permanent Setilement
125-140 Bimalchandra Sinha view
Food Planning for Bengal—III
141-151 Parimalkumar Ray view
Round the World
152-161 unknown view
Reviews and Notices of Books
162-164 unknown view
Ourselves
165-166 unknown view
Official Notifications University of Calcutta
167-180 unknown view

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