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Welfare October 1927

1927

i The Place of Rammohnn Roy in the History of Modern India By RAMANANDA The centenary of the birth of Raja Ramohun Roy ought to have been celtbrated in the early seventies of the last century. [...] of the Sambad Kawandi which contained "an appeal to the rich Hindus of Calcutta to constitute a society for the relief of destitute widows upon the principlet of the Civil and Military Widows' Fund established by order of Government." That he was earnestly in favour of the education of women and did not hold the prevalent low opinion of the character of women is quite clear from many passages i [...] Here again Rammohun stands forth as the tribune and prophet of new India." The Select Committee of the House of Commons which was appointed in February 1831 and reappointed in June to consider the renewal of the Company's Charter invited him to appear before it Rammohun declined this request but tendered his evidence in the form of successive "Communications to the Board of Control." The firs [...] Among the principal measures advocated in the Raja's Questions and Answers on the Judicial System of Jndia were the substittion of English for Persian as the official language of the Courts of law ; the appoinment of native assessors in the civil courts ; trial by jury of which the Panchayet system was the indigenous parallel; 'separation of the offices of judge and.revenue commissioers [...] Bright said in the House of Commons :—"The cultivators of the soil the great body of the population of India are in a condition of great impoverisment of great dejection and of great suffeing." The Englihmen were no doubt greatly surprised to hear this statement from one who was one of them.
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Pages
78
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120076
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Frontmatter
i-vi Ashoke Chatterjee view
The Place of Rammohun Roy in the History of Modern India
581-v Ramananda Chatterjee view
The Poverty of riidia Especially among the Bhadraloges and the Labourers
589-596 Phanindra Bose view
Revolution
596-599 Hara Nag view
Present-day Study of Sanskrit in Bengal
599-606 Gopal Haldar view
Canada’s Prodigious Growth
606-608 K.S. Iyer view
Life Insurance in India
608-616 A.C. Sen view
Difficulties of Small Capitalists
616-619 A.P. Som view
A Message from Maharastra
619-625 Seeta Ajgaonkar view
Welfare Physical Culture Prize
626-626 unknown view
To Last 1000 Years
627-627 Robert Williamson view
Children and Relatives
628-628 Pauline Thomas view
Current Educational Ideals in Italy
633-634 Hans Bhalia view
Is Success Due to Luck ?
635-635 S.V. Moghe view
What Sort of Education is necessary for Women ?
636-637 Nanalal Shah view
Do Yon Know ?
638-644 unknown view
Our Point of View
644-644 unknown view

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