Modern Review February 1932

The Rig Veda is a book of 'religious hymns composed by the early Aryan immgrants into India probably from 1500 to 1200 years B. C. in the Land of the Five Rivers " that is in the lands of the North-west among the streams that form the system of the great Indus. [...] It was the students who began the organization of labour and who filled the ranks of the revolutionary army during the 1925-27 period who spread to all parts of the country and organized peasant unions on a Communist basis and who since then have gone in large numbers into the Red Army supporting the social revolution and assisting in every way the Soviet movment among the peasants of the [...] In spite of these reservations which together with the absence of figures for the standard of armaments take away much of its value the Draft Convention represents the nearest approach to an agreement which the Powers concerned through the Preparatory Commissionjovas able to reach and as such it will-be aaepted as the basis of the discusions at the Conference. [...] Their representatives accepted the principle of limitation and reduction in the spirit of Article 8 of the Covenant of the League of Nations5ut made the formal reservation that the reduction of all or some of the armaments was not passible for them their present armments being far from sufficient to guarantee national safety. [...] India was a member no doubt and continued to be a member of every imperial Conference held subsequently but she was left out of the scope of the formula because of some vague reason defined as the "peculiar nature of its position." The Conference proceeded to enumerate the future relationship of the Dominions with the mother country : that "every alyorerning member of the Empire is now the m