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The Indian Review November 1949 A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Discussion of All Topics of Interest

1949

The result is that the value of the English currency formerly called the pound when it was convertible to gold now called the sterling which is nothing but the name of the inconvertible paper currency of Great Britain just as we call our inconvertible paper currency as the Rupee is falling in terms of the dollar. [...] Russell in stating the problem in the form in which he does it in the opening lecture might seem to some to he uncritcally preoccupied with the ancient threat to the freedom of the individual man presented by the state which worried the thinkers of the liberal school of nineteenth century England. [...] Freedom had a moral and spiritual meaning and the creative use of freedom in the moral intellectual and spiritual spheres was to them the highest fulfilment of human personality But today to the wise as to ever-growing numbers of the semi-instructed and to extraordinarily large numbers of the wholly uninstructed freedom is the knowledge of necessity. [...] But he asks and rightly what are the chances of such a society holding together in the absence of the cohesive force of the fear of external attack ? Are self-interest and the pursuit of the collective good strong enough as impulses of human conduct to sustain the coming World Government ? Inevitably some form of world Government loose and remote in the beginning but gradually exerting real p [...] It should be financed by the Government the Jute Industry the Cotton Textile Industry and the Rayon Textile Industry together in order to ensure engagement of close attention of both the Government and the Textile Industries to the work of the Institute.
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Segment Pages Author Actions
Crisis Government in the Indian Constitution
561-563 Ram Sharma view
What is Wrong with the Pound-Sterling ?
563-568 K. C. Chakravarti view
Liberty and Authority in a Changing World
569-574 S. Aiyer view
The Lilycroft Open-Air Nursery School
574-578 M. Syed view
Jute in The Indian Dominion
579-580 K. R. Sen view
Has Poetry a Future?
581-581 William Hookens view
From My Notebook
582-584 Bee view
Guardianship of ‘ India’
585-592 R. Javanthinathan view
Topical Cartoons
i-iv B. Natesan view
Home and Foreign Affairs
593-597 “An Indian Journalist” view
The World of Books
598-599 B. Natesan view
Diary of the Month
600-600 B. Natesan view
Topics from Periodicals
601-606 B. Natesan view
Indians Overseas
607-608 B. Natesan view
Multum in Parvo
609-616 B. Natesan view