The Radical Humanist Formerly Independent India - Organ of the Radical Humanist Movement August 14 1949

'725 crores by the end of June 19492 A part of the drop is no doubt due to the transfer of some part of the balances to Pakistan and some amounts spent over the pur6hase military installations and the capitalisation of pensions etc. [...] By Article 278 he can assume to himself all the functions of the Government of the State including the powers of the Governor and the Legislature. [...] The policy is justified by the argument that to maintain before the world the dignity of an independent nation is the first concern of the Government. [...] Since the closing decades of the nineteenth century the leaing industrial countries of Europe acquired vast colonial empires through the financial control of the economic life of the backward countries of Asia and Africa. [...] He is beginning to understand the facts about how the macrcosmis constructed and how it' works—facts about the matter under his feet the galaxies beyond the range of his vision the workings of animal and human bodies the history of life and of his own species.