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The Imperial and Asiatic Quarterly Review and Oriental and Colonial Record April 1902

1902

And in the case of the vast territories bordering upon the Persian Gulf it is alone due to the long and persistent efforts of our countrymen that they enjoy the blessings of uninterrupted communiction with the great markets of Europe of which the wares have reached them under the protection of the British flag to be spread into their inmost recesses by land avenues that have been opened up b [...] I say " established " for is there anyone sufficiently igenuous to credit the hypothesis that the lease or acquisition by either Power of a port on the Gulf would bring us to the end of the matter ? To be of any use in these little governed countries the possession oc a port would entail the control of the territories behind ; and the political importance and potential resources of these count [...] Stretching from the Black Sea and the Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea this hypothetical state would control the conimunications between Europe and Asia and play in the Eastern Mediterranean the part played by France in the Western. [...] He regards the canal of Suez and the prposed canal across the isthmus of Central America as the main pivots round which the politics of the Old and the New Worlds are destined to revolve. [...] The belt of moutains buttressing the tableland of Persia bends round at the head of the alluvial plains of Mesopotamia performing the same function for the highlands of Armenia and further west for those of Asia Minor.
government politics public policy
Pages
220
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120018
Segment Pages Author Actions
The Persian Gulf
225-234 H.F.B. Lynch view
Is State-Aided Education in Any Shape Suitable to the Present Circumstances of India ?
235-253 Ronald Wilson view
Lord Canning and Lord Milner
254-269 John Jardine view
The Progress of the Municipal Idea in India
270-279 A. Rogers view
The Indian Civil Service and the Further Admission of Natives of India
280-286 J.B. Pennington view
The Poverty of the Rayat
287-293 Rusticus view
Morocco: the Sultan and the Bashadours
294-305 Ion Perdicaris view
The Prince of Wales. Professorship of History at the South African College
306-316 H.E.S. Fremantle view
Quarterly Report on Semitic Studies and Orientalism
317-320 Edward Montet view
The Age of Manikka Vagagar
321-335 I.C. Innes view
Japanese Monographs
336-345 Charlotte Salway view
China the Avars and the Franks
346-360 F.H. Parker view
Siam’s Intercourse with China (Seventh to Nineteenth Centuries)
361-368 G.E. Gerini view
Proceedingrs of the East India Association
369-398 unknown view
Correspondence Notes and News
399-410 unknown view
Reviews and Notices
411-431 unknown view
Summary of Events
432-444 unknown view