Federated India August 1940

Shall we be found wanting at the hour of victory ? The End of an Epoch On the morning of the fourth August the staggering news of the death of Sri352 FEDERATED INDIA Krishnaraja Wodayar the Maharaja of Mysore was broadcast. [...] The Prosecution of the War In the matter of the prosecution of the war India is coming into line with Britain and putting forth herNOTES 551 efforts in a manner reminiscent of the last war. [...] The Parting of the Ways The Working Committee of the Congress have committed a blunder of the first magnitude in creating a split over the issue of nonviolence as applied to the sphere of national defence. [...] IN MEMORIAM BY K. S. RAO The sun of Karnataka has set and the whole country is enveloped in unfathmable darkness and misery by the passing away of His Highness Sri Krishnaraja Wadiyar Bahadur Maharaja of Mysore on the night of Saturday the 3rd instant at 9. 5. The end was so swift and sudden as to make the people dumb and paralysed when they heard the fateful news on the morning of Sunday the [...] P. Raghavedra Rao who was near the death-bed of Aug.-3 His Highness at the time of his death was one of the tutors who moulded the future Ruler of the State who always showed the devotion and reverence of a true chela and there always existed between them the ideal relationship of of Guru and Shishya of ancient days.