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The Calcutta Review An Illustrated Monthly (Third Series) November 1948

1948

On Monday August 9 1948 the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India in his presidential address at the Annual General Meeting of shareholders drew the pointed attention of the country to the inflationary forces that have gathered like a storcloud in the country. [...] It is explained by Buddhaghosa describing it that in the"1948] MAHATMA GANDHI 83 assembly of the monks Mahakagyapa put a question to the Order as to whether Vinaya or Dharma was to be recited first and the Order said in reply that Vinaya was to be given the first place on the ground that the life of the Buddhagasana 'the teaching of the Buddha' was Vinaya and the endurance of Dharma depended on t [...] They serve to prove that the popular belief in regard to the effects of the excessive smoking of this drug is not after all a prejdice but that it is based on the collective experience of generations of observers."1948] HEMP DRUG-ADDICTION AND PHYSICAL DAMAGE 91 EFFECTS OF USE OF CHARAS ON HEALTH Between the fifties and the seventies of the last century the smoking of charas by dissipated and [...] In this connection reference may be made to the evidence of Brigade-Surgeon-Lieutenant-Colonel W. R. Hooper who made special reference to " the physical and mental breakdown being gradual but certain in proportion to the rate and amount of indulgence and the constitution of the addict." The inference we are entitled to draw from the above is that the use of these drugs in even the smallest of dos [...] At the Cite Universitaire I saw the film La Femme du Boulanger (April 8) showing the life of a village baker whose wife runs away with a young man the scandal in the village the role of the priest and the church slang and dialects of the French language.
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Pages
73
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120137
Segment Pages Author Actions
Fighting the Battle of Inflation
73-80 P. N. Banerjee view
Mahatma Gandhi
81-83 Vidhushekhara Bhattacharya view
Hemp Drug-Addiction and Physical Damage
84-96 H. C. Mookherjee view
Academic and Cultural Titbits from Cite Universitaire (April-July 1948)
97-113 Indira Sarkar view
The Economic Regions of France
114-117 R. Kolb-Bernard view
The Organisation of Commercial Education
118-124 Haricharan Ghose view
The XXIst. International Congress of Orientalists
125-127 O. Macombe, J. Filliozat view
Resolutions Passed by the XXIst International Congress of Orientalists
128-132 unknown view
Round the World
133-138 unknown view
Reviews and Notices of Books
139-140 unknown view
Ourselves
141-145 unknown view

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