By Erich Frauwallner

This primary quantity is dedicated to the oldest interval of Indian Philosophy from the begging to the top of the 1st millennium after Christ. It embraces the philosophy of the Veda and the epic, the Buddha and Jina, the Sankhya and the classical Yoga approach. quantity II units forth the presentation of the nature--philosophical schools--the Vaisesika and Jaina platforms and the structures of Lokayatas, Kautilya and different materialist.

Trans. from unique German via V.M. Bedekar.

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Pinnell—who would play a fateful role in the lives of many millions of Bengalis—narrated his equivocal record of administration in the Bengal countryside during the war and famine tellingly: I do hope that some of the members of the Commission will go on tour by the watercourses along the coastal routes of Bengal; if they do so they will 34 War appreciate how impossible it is to administer that area in detail with the staff that exists…the whole area is a network of tidal khal [inlets, canals and bayous] running between very big and dangerous rivers and your staff consists of the sub-divisional officer, perhaps a couple of circle officers for an area of 600 square miles, and a thana [police precinct] staff of a sub-inspector with perhaps one assistant for an area of—I would not like to exactly say….

The earth itself is being soaked in blood, The sky has gone dark. Bombs and gunpowder are piled in heaps. All of India has been watching this war closely, Knowing that we too are never far from peril. Now the flames of war have come close to our land. The jaw of Calcutta is veiled in darkness. ’ Civility and culture have been stricken to the root. And yet, I see, so many of you young boys and girls, remembering your faith, are speaking from your hearts, narrating dreams of happier days to come—even while the earth is stained with blood, even amidst the cries of distress and fear.

12 A Food (Defense Plans) Department of His Majesty’s Government (HMG) was established in December of the same year. 15 As importantly, the plan included strict measures to control bulk purchasing. Bulk purchasing by vested interests and commodity speculators, it was well understood, could radically destabilize markets during wartime, leading to uncontrolled inflation and ultimately shortages. As such, detailed plans were drawn up for governmental appropriation and storage of large quantities of food grains in order to control markets.

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