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The Asiatic Review April 1941

1941

Against the historical background of the days of the old East India Company these views might well have had justification but how little did tlicy represent the modern spirit of Britain ! Indeed no one in this country who had followed closely the various stages in the prolonged investigation which led to the Act—the inquiry of the Simon Commission the Round-Table Conference the proceedings of [...] Following these conversations the Viceroy on October 17 1939 made a declaration on behalf of the British Government that Dominion Status remained the goal and that they were prepared to reconsider the scheme of the present Act at the end of the war in consultation with leaders of opinion in India. [...] The Congress and the Muslim League (whose differences have done so much to create the present deadlock) the Princes (whose attitude towards Federation appears to have been profoundly affected by the Congress policy) the Hindu Mahasabha the Depressed Classes the Democratic Swrajya Party the Liberals the labouring classes—all it is conceived are to be represented in the task of making the [...] One suggestion was that the fears of the Muslims and the hesitations of the Princes also might be largely met by a further increase in the powers of the Provinces possibly rearranged and regrouped subject only to the minimum of central control necessary to secure some measure of unity in foreign defensive and economic policy. [...] I think one of the greatest difficulties we have to face is the fact that we have set up in the various constitutions that have been given to India comunal electorates the result of which has been to reinforce the more extreme points of view at the expense of the moderate and intermediate points of view and so long as the communal electorates are maintained and preserved and insisted upon
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Frontmatter
i-x unknown view
India’s Constitutional Problem: Suggested New Approaches
201-222 J.P. Eddy view
Muslim Political Influence in the World Today
223-244 Iqbal Shah view
The Governorship of Burma
245-249 unknown view
The Indian Situation: The Woman’s Point of View
250-270 Lady Hartog view
Britain’s Faithful Ally in the War
271-280 B.S. Townroe view
Islamic Support in the War
281-286 H.H. view
The Story of the Indian Contingent in France and in Britain
287-294 W.W. Hills view
The Arabs Great Britain and Germany (the Present and the Future) a Spiritual Survey
295-304 Rom Landau view
Dr. Taha Hussain’s ”The Future of Culture in Egypt”
305-309 A.J. Arberry view
Education in Mysore
310-iv Henry Sharp view
The Cauvery-Mettur Irrigation Project
313-322 Alfred Chatterto view
Tales of My Grandfather
323-333 John Kavanagh view
The Philosophy and Modes of Hindu Music
334-342 Dennis Stoll view
British Trade with the Netherlands East Indies
343-348 L.H. Cripps view
The Elements of Malayan Civilization
349-353 Richard Winstedt view
Mr. Gandhi and Non-Violence
354-357 Henry Polak view
Experiences of a Deccan Youth
358-360 Sadath Khan view
An Italian in India: Paulo Di Avitabile
361-365 H.L.O. Garrett view
The Golden Age of Georgia—I
366-376 I. Mantskava view
Malaya’s Mineral Resources and the War
377-391 Lewis Fermor view
If the Nazis Ruled India
392-398 Stanley rice view
Reviews of Books
399-432 unknown view