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The Asiatic Review. October 1938

1938

The important matter is that victory over tuberculosis in this country is in sight and if the present rate of progress is maintained there are people alive today who will be able to tell their children how the scourge of tuberculosis darkened the lives6o6 Tuberculosis in India: A Key Problem of the people in the bad old days of the first half of the twentieth century. [...] This reduction in the tuberculosis rate among British troops is what would be expected from the combination of two factors : one being the improved hygienic conditions in which the soldiers are living and the other the fall in the tuberculosis rate of the population from which the soldiers are recruited. [...] As a result of the great success of the Adult Education Movement in Great Britain and throughout the West and with the spreading of liberal ideas through the universities it was felt many years ago by the social and political leaders of India that if the country were to develop to any great extent along the line of social and economic betterment it was necessary to educate those members of the [...] With the coming of the new Governments in the Provinces and the cosequent feeling of greater selrespect and freedom the educated men and women specially those who are still in the Universities or who have left them since the war are filled with the desire to tackle the chief problems of their country. [...] Moreover during the past eighty years the Government of India has carried out the great majority of social improvements in the country so that the Indian has come to look on the Government as being responsible for even the smallest services in every part of the country.
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Tuberculosis in India: a Key Problem
601-623 John Megaw view
Social Implications of Adult Education in India
624-643 Banning Richardson view
The Garden Party at Fox Warren Park
644-646 L.M. Saunders view
Some Aspects of Cheap Power Development Under the New Constitution in India
647-681 William Stampe view
The Seventy-First Annual Report of the East India Association
682-690 unknown view
Seventy-First Annual Meetimg
691-697 unknown view
Some Educational Problems in India
698-701 A.E. Watson view
The Netherlands as a Colonial Power
702-718 A. Neijtzell De Wilde view
Malayan Forests and Their Utilization
719-x H.E. Desch view
The Journey Through Syria
729-733 A.R. Adair view
Hong Kong’s New Territory: Its Beauty and Interest
734-742 W. Schofield view
The Conflict Between Japan and China
743-751 Ching-Chun Wang view
The Problems of Indian Agriculture and Some Dominion Comparisons
752-761 Anwar Qureshi view
Life and Sport in Shantung
762-772 W.A. Powell view
Keladi Chiefs: Their Contribution to the History of Mysore
773-ii T.C.S. Manian view
The Future of Anglo-Japanese Relations
777-785 M.D. Kennedy view
British Trade Prospects in China
786-793 R.T. Peyton-Griffin view
Tu-Thuc: An Annamite Legend
794-800 Pham-Duy-Khiem view
The Keshub Chunder Sen Centenary
801-805 Viscount Samuel view
Some Asiatic Displays at the Glasgow Exhibition
806-816 unknown view
The League of Nations and World Peace*
817-820 H.H. view
Reviews of Books
821-843 unknown view
Correspondence
844-844 unknown view