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The Asiatic Review (Formerly the Asiatic Quarterly Review) July 1936

1936

Now and When the Reforms Materialize 465 It is quite natural that many of the younger politically minded Indians who chafe at the apparently slow progress towards the goal of their desires would like to speed it up and they are wont to declare that the slow pace of the Indianization of the defence forces is the principal brake on the wheels of progress. [...] He has to answer for defence matters in the Indian Parliament and expound and justify the military policy of the Viceroy there and he has full voting power on all matters in the Council of State and the Viceroy's Council.476 Some Aspects of the Defence of India Defence subjects are dealt with in the Lower House by a civil official called the Army Secretary. [...] I do not believe with the world so close together as it is to-day that hard saying as it may be the peoples of the British Empire whatever their colour whatever their race wherever they live—with the possible exception of the people of Canada who are protected by their proximity to the United States —I do not believe that the peoples of the British Empire in the present state of the world [...] On the other hand in view of the fact that the experiment is at its initial stages when it cannot be expected to yield all the results that it is capable of the officials should take steps to give the future officers of the Army the amount of encouragement which is required to make a success of an experment like this in its initial stages. [...] The defence of the shores of India is undertaken by the Imperial Goverment in exactly the same way that the defence of the rest of the units of the Empire is undertaken.
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