Landholders’ Journal. October 1932

The civil disobedience movement on the one hand and the firm determination on the other of the Government and its supporters to fight it out the boycott of British and foreign goods by Indians and the determined attempts on the part of the affected interests to fight the opposition blind faith in the terrorist cult on the part of a certain section of the people however limited and the faith [...] We shall attempt in the following paragraphs an examination of the extent of the achievements of the Permanent Settlement attained so far and trace the causes which inevitably led to the frustration of some of the most cherished hopes of the authors of the measure. [...] The more obvious explanation of the organised refusal of the tenants to pay rents and the consequent sales of estates which took place during the first few years of the Permanent Settlement was as the authors of the Fifth Report put it 'defective law of distraint which gave too little powers to the zemindars to realise their rents in times Government was not altogether indifferent to the possibl [...] During the short period of his accession the Raja Sahib has: spent several lakhs of rupees on improvement and construction of irrigation sources such as the Nolini Krishnasagaram at Bagga the Avalimma embankment diverting the course of one of the rivers of the Estate and making it useful for 'irrigation and the Sirada project besides. the large sources already in existence. [...] Sind at the moment with the tenacious demand advanced by the Moslems of the province for separation from the Bombay Presidency and the strenuous opposition of its Hindus to the Moslem demand is the rock on which many apprhend that the negotiations will split.