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India To-Morrow Saturday 10th October 1931

1931

Is this the Russia of the pre-Revolution days ? The gloom and the squalor the orgy of Czarist madness and the merciless thuds of the horses hoops secret meetings amongst people whom the Old Russian Mother blessed ; crowds singing paeans of enthusiastic songs of freedom and beaten back ; tbe voice of Pavel falling in sombre sonority upon the ears of the puppet judges and drown* their voices in i [...] In his " Questions and Answers on the Judicial system of India " dated September 1831 he proposed the appointment of native assessors in the Civil Courts ; the substitution of English for Persian as the official language of the Courts of Law ; trial by jury ; separation of the offices of judge and revenue commissioner ; codification of the criminal Law and also of the civil Law of India etc. [...] Then we have the mediaeval paintings Mussalman as well as Hindu which take us to the days of the great Mughals of Delhi and of the Feudal Princes who held Court in the splendid cities of Rajputana and to the days of Nanak and Kabir Chaitanya and Tukaram and a host of other leaders of religious thought. [...] The suppression of muscular details and the attenuation of the waist indicating a physical frame unused to all grosser forms of enioyment and the tender grace dignity and repo'se of the figure are typical of all that'is best in the Art of the period. [...] The drain of wealth from the country will be checked no doubt but the flow will simply be diverted from the foreign capitalists—not into the pockets of the industrial classes who are most in need of it but—into the coffers of the capitalists of India.
history
Pages
45
Published in
Bangladesh
SARF Document ID
sarf.120262
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-i unknown view
The Red Lances of China and the Scouts of Russia
287-289 Kamaladevi Chattopadhyaya view
Volunteer Movement
290-293 K.L. Ganguli view
Krishna to Radha
294-294 H.W.B. Moreno view
Review
295-298 A.S. view
Correspondence
299-301 unknown view
Raja Rammohan Ray
302-305 Himansu Mallik view
Indian Nationalism and Indian Art Beginnings of a New Movement
306-313 Rabindra Ghosh view
Sports Here & Sports There
314-317 Pee Enn view
Cottage Industries Vs Manufacturing Industries: The Case for Artisans in India
318-320 Aswini Gupta view
Germany’s Ills
320-322 A.N.R. view
Our Point of View
323-324 unknown view
Notes
324-326 unknown view
The Hijli & Chittagong Outrages Rabindranath Tagore Presides Over Protest Meeting
327-328 unknown view

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