The Calcutta Weekly Notes Monday June 28 1943

What other effect it will have on the administration of India or the political situation in the country it is not possible to say since nothing is known of the Field Marshal’s politics. [...] What is required is a man who on the one hand is used to the application of force and will be able to maintain order in the country; and who on the other hand will be able to appreciate military moves and events readily and make the entire civil administration subserve military ends. [...] There can be little doubt that the appoinment is the result of the recent delibertions at Washington where a comprehesive plan for the conduct of affairs in the Eastern Zone is reported to have been adoped. [...] It was reserved for him hoever to reach the summit of his career in a civil case which was truly described by one of the Judges who heard it on appeal as unique in legal annals " In the celbrated Bhowal Sannyasi case he was the leading Counsel for the claimant and won the verdict' for his client both in the trial Court and the Court of Appeal. [...] His death removes not only a successful member of the profession but also a link between the old world in which the Bengal ideology tilled India's politics and the new world Which is yet struggling to be born.