The New Review July 1943

The text of the resolution proposed on behalf of the Government on the constitution of the Plenary Conference was as follows : This Conference of the representtives of the Central and Provincial Governments in British India and of the Indian States and the Chamber of Princes and of representatives of workers and employers in British India being convinced that a collaborative machinery compo [...] That the Plenary Conference shall advise the Government of India on any matters referred to it for advice taking into account suggestions made by Provincial Governments States and the Chamber of Princes and representative organisations of employers and workers recognised for the purpose of the Conference.' The text of the resolution concering the constitution of the Standing ---Advisory Com [...] Butler proceeded to compare the conditions in the East to those 'that existed in Europe during the early stages of the industrial revolution' and describing the nature of the social ferment in Oriental countries remared : 'It is clear that the introduction of industrialisation is breeding the same problems in the East as in the West but against an Eastern background their order of importance [...] Apparently the dramatists were only trying to ridicule the foibles and follies of the time pillorying unsocial elements like the bore the rake the dandy the braggart the would-be wit the pseudo-Don Juan the old-fashioned father the scandal-monger etc. [...] the immorality in the drama was not the reflection of the morality of the time but only of the immorality and that of the faster set.