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The Rural India May 1940

1940

LATE Justice Ranade of the revered memory had rightly said that since the introduction of the western methods of impart ing justice to the masses in this country the real course of evolution of the 'Hindu Dharma Shastra' has been completely stopped ! The present day crowded Bar its struggle for existence the moral degeneration of masses and the basic difference on the oulook of life between [...] But with the advent of the western civilization villages have yielded to towns tanks have been neglected in favour of anicuts cottage industries have been supeseded by machine products so much so that from the pen to the dress from the rice to the salt from the knife to the drug from the needle to the bodkin from the shoe to the cap from the stove to the milk all have come from abroad [...] What a shame what a competition what a concentration; not that towns did not exist in ancient times but that in the times of the Naik kings of Madura of Krishna Devaraya and his successors upto the previous generation of our zemindars and landed aristocracy the towns were the emporiums of village arts they were the rivers that gathered the waters of the heavens and distributed them to the v [...] For this reason it is necessary to emphasise that the organization of.marketing will have to be definitely on a subsidised basis and that the agency for the sale of the products will have to interest itself in the provision of raw materials the financing of production and the improvement of the processes and tools of manufacture. [...] The movement of funds follows diverse diretions: One from the city centres to the country side during the crop 'season while the other from the country centres to the city centres for paying for the movement of goods mostly manufactured to the countryside thus diminishing a good deal of the velocity of money which alone can make a reduction in the charges for money.
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Frontmatter
i-ii G.K. Puranik view
The Third Session of Pohri Jagir Rural Development Conference
281-283 G.K. Puranik view
Marketing of Argicultural Produce its Problems and Their Solution
284-286 A.R. Malik view
Gadha-Gal Or A Curious Type of Inscription Regarding Rural Administration
287-288 B.R. Bhalerao view
Second Agricultural Labourers Conference
289-293 B. Sitaramayya view
Patronise Cottage Industries
293-293 J.C. Kumarappa view
Marketing of Handicraft Products
294-294 Vaikunth L. Mehta view
Rural Schools
295-296 S.K. Mitra view
Some Aspects of Rural Marketing and Finance in India
297-301 S.C. Majumder view
National Week
302-302 Bharatan Kumarappa view
Efficiency
303-304 N.S. Hardikar view
Rilo Chait—Parab and Other Folk—Songs
305-314 Devendra Satyarthi view
Impetus to Cottage Industries
314-315 V.A. Kannan view
Cattle Improvement in Rural Areas
316-317 C.D. Kalapa view
The Place of Horticulture in National Economy
318-319 R.S. Dubhashi view
The Power and Place of Villages in the Politics of India
319-320 Vishwambhar Premi view
Reports of Rural Development
321-326 G.K. Puranik view
Rural Uplift Centres in Baroda State
327-328 Bhikhalal B. Kapasi view
Cottage Industries in Baroda
328-328 G.K. Puranik view
Review
329-330 Thomas Campbell view
Rural News
331-336 G.K. Puranik view

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