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The Imperial and Asiatic Quarterly Review and Oriental and Colonial Record April 1903

1903

To return to the North-West Frontier propper a great deal has been written in the last two or three years regarding the relations of the Punjab Government with the frontier tribes and with the Government of India and the Viceroy's action in creating a new frontier Province out of the tribal hill tracts and the ordinary plains across the Indus but it is evident from a perusal of the Blue Book th [...] Nor should it be forgotten that over and above these and other economies the great merits of these plans are the addition to our defensive strength on the border by the enlistment of the tribesmen and the increase to our offensive power by the recall and concentration of the troops of the regular arne37. [...] Will she always'play the bill as the frontiers are puihed farther and farther west after so much of the Afghan hills and the roof of the world has been practically annexed and Beluchistan added to the Empire when the flank has been turned and the frontier appears still farther west in Seistan in Fars in Arabistan and in the Persian Gulf ? Or will the burden be transferred to the patient shou [...] It will also have to face all the obstacles placed by the Turkish Administration upon navigation and the access to the Kermanshah-Hamadan-Teheran tradroute with which is worthy to be classed the attitude of the Persian Government in respect of the navigation of the Karun of the trade of which 95 per cent. [...] One may be pardoned therefore for raising the question that it is as much the apathy of the rulers as of the ruled and a want of correct appreciation of the true educational needs of the country that are responsible for the present backward state of education among the people.
government politics public policy
Pages
218
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120018
Segment Pages Author Actions
The Western Frontiers of India
225-252 J.D. Rees view
The Coronation Delhi Durbar and its Political Importance
253-263 unknown view
Indian Economic Questions: Education
264-282 unknown view
Indian Taxation
283-302 Charles Roe view
Indian Constitutional Law
303-314 Lewis Tupper view
Indian Currency Legislation and Indian Economics
315-338 A.R. Bonus view
The “Indian Phantom” No Phantom but a Grievous Reality
339-366 William Digby view
The Indian Budge of 1902-1903
367-379 W.E. Fischer view
The International Congress of Orientalists at Hanoi Tonkin
380-383 C.J.W. Pfoundes view
Indian Medical Service: Past and Present
384-394 W.B. Beatson view
Proceedings of the East India Association
395-404 unknown view
Correspondence Notes and News
405-414 unknown view
Reviews and Notices
415-435 unknown view
Summary of Events
436-442 unknown view