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The article presents a study on the phases of vegetation under monsoon conditions in the North of the Bombay Presidency in India. It examines the vegetation of the low lying area of about 36 acres, which includes 161 species of flowering plants being grouped in 8 synusia. Physiological anatomy of plants and their ecology was described in relation to the theory of mixed formations in time. It concludes that an association is not necessarily a topographical unit and that the synusium is to be preferred to the association as the fundamental unit of ecology.

The present article focuses on the dual role of the TLA: as a trade union, and as a leader in the national struggle to control the "protest" movement. The following is a brief history of the development of the TLA which serves as a background for its present ideology and its current national role. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]