Indian Affairs-A Journal of the Indian National Congress March 1950

He spoke of the political and economic integration of the 500 and odd princely states into 16 sizable units with an administrative set-up approaching that of the rest of India of the rapid improvement of conditions on the railways and the progress of the Grow More Food campaign. [...] The inauguration of the Supreme Court of India invested with the highest appellate authority hitherto exercised by the Privy Council in England and having jurisdiction over the whole of the Union represents even more than the substitution of a President for a Governor-General the fundamental change in the status of India which the new Constitution signifies. [...] John Mathai observed : " Unless conditions are created in which the incentive to save and invest is revived the industrial expansion of the country and the execution of the plan for raising the living standards of the people are bound to be delayed." The budget provided for the following reliefs in taxation : (1) Abolition of the Capital Gains Tax—loss of revenue of Rs. [...] A recent notable discovery of the Sailendra epoch was brought to the notice of the Government of India through the courtesy of the Minister of Education in Java : it consists of an inscribed gold plaque found in the ruins of the temples at Plaosan near Parambanan on the border of Surakarta and Jogjakarta. [...] The objects of the Association are : (1) To promote the social material and intellectual well-being of members their dependants and families ; (2) To render financial and other assistance for the education of the children of the unemployed members during the period of such unemploment; (3) to facilitate repatriation to India of families and dpendants of deceased members and of destitude In