FUTURE OF INDIA
RECEPTION OF REFORM OF CONSTITUTION. 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, entitled “India in 1931-32.” The report states that there is little doubt but a large section 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 I£|J2 the convictions for civil disobedience fell from 14,803 in January, to 1545 in December. The majority of the 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.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19672, 14 December 1933, Page 3
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