REFORM IN INDIA

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 69, 14 December 1933, Page 9

REFORM IN INDIA

“Immense Possibilities” REVIEW OF RESULTS (British Official Wireless.) Rugby, December .12. The constitutional reforms proposed for India offer immense possibilities of self-government, according to the Government of India report, issued to-day, entitled “India in 1931-32.?’ The report states that there is little doubt that large sections of political India will welcome and endeavour to work the new constitution, and sober opinion reviews the results achieved as solid and satisfactory. In the period reviewed the influence of the Congress Party showed a gradual decline. The emergency measures of the Government gradually eliminated subversive activities, and in 1932 convictions for civil disobedience fell from 14,803 in January to 1545 in December. The majority of persons convicted abstained from further participation in the movement after release. Nearly 329,000,000 acres, or 34 per cent, of the acreage, was sown with crops. The balance of trade with the United Kingdom moved in favour of India. The United Kingdom’s share in imports fell from 37.2 per cent, in 1931 to 35.5 per cent, in 1932, partly on account of the political boycott, while the British share of Indian experts rose from 23.8 per cent, to 28.2 per cent. •” - Except in Bengal, Cholera diminished, cases in all India falling from 367,000 in 1930 to 250,000.