AFTER MOTHER INDIA

ns.'1 Or '£5,000 for "Drain Inspector"—
,. 's°f India Reported to have Subsidised Mother

. . r- Gandhi sets afloat the 'dime novel' idea by
gating that Mother India is a 'shilling shocker.'3
d as to the final count, American audiences pay

0 ear Dhan Gopal Mukerji tell them that 'sex, not
i \ ril*es American literature and drama.' In my

DOOks '* k • 1 tr t it t

1 ' ne is reported as announcing 1 nave talked

th t K sou' °^ ^ia t'iese manY years. But I notice
°oks on sex and Indian pornography are mostly
jj ^adays. For instancfe in Mother India, Miss
and K nothing but the most abnormal sex cases,

tit" >ecause °f that people buy the books in large quan-

^ever, this did not prevent the speaker from ^ritr
>o« of Mother India Answers.
•lzl the British House of Commons Mr. Rennie
^e Labour Member from Penistone, asked the
Secretary of State for India 'whether Miss
the I A-*3 assisted in the production of this book by
• tt, a Office or the Government of India?'5 elicit-

iss May0 receive(j no assistance in the pro1-

froCU°u of her book, either from the India Office or

tite Government of India, beyond the supply

*Incfta > Calcutta, November 6th, 1927.

3 fDraj j**onal Herddt Bombay, November 5th, 1927.
ember j-tt IlsPector)s Report,* Young India, M. K. Gandhi, Sept-

4 ly^i^ »X927.

*Parli 6> S ^•°^nes> Ia»> October i8th, 1937.
to Indian ^2*^ &&&*&> House of Commons, extracts relating
»Session 1927, Part IX, p. 706,

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