The Calcutta Weekly Notes February 21 1949

Sarkar’s fears about the disintegration of the Hindu family even if the Code becomes the law of the land before long. [...] We do not mind overmuch the by-passing of the Goverment of India in this matter but as things stand at present we cannot support his suggestion that if need be the Premier (of the province) may have the benefit of the Chief Justice "; we prefer to put on the Chief Justice's views in the matter of.appointments to the Bench an importance qualitatively different altogether from that which we [...] Pappu Somasundararn the retiring president of the Bar Federation :—.5 The Bar Federation should elevate its sphere of activities to the loftier level of a bold and costructive type in the field of legal reform. [...] The opinion of the majority against the Bill is not of lay men but of a large it ajority of learned men whose opinion the Hindu Law Committee sought. [...] A Mahamahpadhya versed in Hindu law of Western India in a letter to me on this subject said to the effect that the opinion of the mass is not the proper criterion.