Legislative Assembly Debates Wednesday 15th March 1933 Official Report

2099 When a man is absolutely on rock-bottom when a man barely exists-- and that I think is the position of the ryot at least in India and the position of the labourer in India and the same remark has applied to Burma since the beginning of the depression—the poorest class of peasant in India and Burma had such a hard time even in the good old days that he could not live a harder life now than [...] I knew '1 was causing a great inconvenience to my Honourable friend the Finance Member and to the House as well; but I took that extreme course because it was the only thing I could do to bring Burma to the notice of the Government of India in the manner I wanted. [...] The fact that I had moved a motion in this House successfully to bring to the notice of the Goverment of India the state of affairs in Burma regarding the question of separation must have been intimated to the Government of Great Britain and yet at the Second Indian Round Table Conference Burma was not represented. [...] That was the issue on which we went to the country and that was the issue on which the country elected to the Council a majority of Anti-Separationists. [...] Nothing connected with the separation issue was on the agenda on any