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... India has been drained . Its wealth has been wrung from the land . Hunger is a serious problem . But equally serious is illiteracy , illness and inertia . " After bread , education is the first need of the people " . Calcutta is but the ...
... India has been drained . Its wealth has been wrung from the land . Hunger is a serious problem . But equally serious is illiteracy , illness and inertia . " After bread , education is the first need of the people " . Calcutta is but the ...
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... India from earliest times , and is today , the finest produced anywhere in the world . Yes ! Ranking with that of Germany or England . Paper making too , was first known in India , where , for a long time , it was formed of cotton and ...
... India from earliest times , and is today , the finest produced anywhere in the world . Yes ! Ranking with that of Germany or England . Paper making too , was first known in India , where , for a long time , it was formed of cotton and ...
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... India was the youngest of the three , yet Egypt and Chaldea were commercially its vassals and dependents . Later , down the road of time , in the eighth century , the traders of Islam brought away from India , mathematics based on the ...
... India was the youngest of the three , yet Egypt and Chaldea were commercially its vassals and dependents . Later , down the road of time , in the eighth century , the traders of Islam brought away from India , mathematics based on the ...
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Farewell to Youth | 1 |
Has War a Moral | 13 |
A Free India | 31 |
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