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The Calcutta Review January-February 1927

1927

The centralising of the currency and bankin4 reserves in the hands of the Central Bank would reduce the fluctuations in money rates and the hitherto divergent policies in regard to currency by the currency authority and banking by the banking authority would be given up. [...] Thus the gold currency standard can be reached if sufficient gold reserves are accumulated but the education of the people in the use of the new inconvertible rupee note and the other denominations of paper currency popularised by the Bank would be such as to open the eyes of the people to realise the uneconomical character of gold_ currency. [...] Refering to the promise contained in the Regulations of 1793 that the public demand was fixed the Secretary of Stateesaid " The public demand was to be fixed and permanent such was the promise and its scope aild object were clearly explained in the concluding exhortation addressed to the landowners that they would exert themselves in the cultivation of their lands under the certainty that t [...] These last words illustrate the whole force of the argument which has been admitted to be just in the case of the income tax." The Secretary of State then proceeded to say that it was quite true that the income -tax was in the fullest sense of the word a public demand. [...] The Taxation Enquiry Committee has come to the conclusion that the tracing out of the share of the receipts of the intermediate holders of land is an impossible task.
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Pages
231
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120137
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-i unknown view
An Idealist’s Confession of Faith
1-10 Hiralal Haldar view
The Gold Bullion Standard
11-22 B. Rau view
Tanation of Agricultural Incomes in Bengal
23-36 Jitendraprasad Niyogi view
Local Taxes in the Rural Areas of the Madras Presidency
37-58 Nalini Chatterjee view
Reflections of a Wayfarer
59-69 S. Buksh view
The Affairs of India and Siam
70-96 Mohinimohan Chatterji view
The Destiny of Man
97-106 B.C. Mazumdar view
Japanese Love Stories
107-108 Etsu Sugimoto view
A Programme for the Indian Nationalists
109-113 Taraknath Das view
An Alaskan Trip
114-127 Viola Copper view
Inferiority Complex
128-140 H.D. Bhattacharyya view
Reviews
141-152 N.C.B. view
The Vedantic Conception of God
153-176 Mahendranath Sircar view
Democracy Versus Imperialism
177-190 Wendell Thomas view
Present Tendency of American World Politics
191-196 Taraknath Das view
Japan Judges America
197-214 K.K. Kawakami view
Massive Infection By Tuberculosis
215-i C.C Chatterjee view
Ourselves
221-228 C.C Chatterjee view

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