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The Asiatic Review July 1940

1940

It would have meant a considerable setback to the idea of costitutional progress in India if the introduction of the scheme of provincial autonomy had been marked in the majority of prvinces by the suspension of all forms of constitutional machinery and the assumption by the Governors of all powers of Goverment. [...] I would say in the first place that the Congress brought into the administration of the Province the virtues and also the defects of the democratic system. [...] Thereafter the organization of the Muslim League quickly bcame widespread vigorous and formidable and the activities of the Muslims constituted far the most serious of the embarrasments and anxieties of the Congress Government. [...] But as time went on the Muslims became more and more convinced that it was the intention of the All-India Congress Party to constitute themselves the sole inheritors of the British power and by the use of a permanent Hindu majority to become the effective rulers of the country. [...] The shortcomings of the Congress arose from the fact that the Congress as Sir Harry has pointed out represents the majority community in India and the minority community represented by the Muslim League cannot reconcile themselves to the government of the majority without their own body being as such represented in the Government.
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Frontmatter
i-x unknown view
The United Provinces and the New Constitution
423-444 Harry Haig view
Empire Fibres
445-473 A. Wigglesworth view
Forty Years Public Health Progress in India
474-493 ALexander Russell view
The British in India and the War
494-501 F.E. James view
The Indian Soldier in the B.E.F.
502-506 Edwin Haward view
India’s War Effort
507-513 George Dunbar view
Oriental Studies in the University of Algiers
514-520 Georges Marcais view
Recent Progress in Travancore
521-526 Robert Parry-Ellis view
An Annamite Legend: The Violin of the King of the Waters
527-532 Tran-Van-Ting view
The All-India Philosophical Congress: The Fifteenth Session
533-534 John Kavanagh view
Manifestations of India’s Sympathy for Poland
535-540 unknown view
Historical Research in India
541-544 William Barton view
Administration in Baroda
545-553 Stanley Rice view
Our Debt to China
554-557 Arthur Waley view
Approach to Chinese Art and Poetry
558-572 Laurence Binyon view
How Chinese Artists Paint
573-577 Chiang Yee view
China Society Luncheon
578-587 unknown view
The Mecca Pilgrimage and Its Importance to the Netherlands East Indies
588-597 D. Meulen view
The Sentimental Autobiography of Shakespeare
598-609 Ranjee Shahani view
Reviews of Books
610-638 unknown view
Backmatter
i-ii unknown view