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The Indian Review July 1927 A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Discussion of All Topics of Interest

1927

At the Imperial Conference of 1926 it was resolved to re-affirm the resoltions of the Conferences of 1923 which laid426 THE INDIAN REVIEW [ juLY 1927 down among other things that each portion of the Empire represented at the Conference was primarily responsible for its own local defence and that it was for the Parliaments of the several parts of the Empire upon the recomendations of their [...] The obnoxious features of the Bill are that the control of the proposed navy is vested not in the Government of India but in the Imperial Government that the provision for recruiment for Naval Commissions is wrong in principle in that it imposes no statutory obligtion for the manning of the ships by Indians and that it enables the Imperial Government to employ the Indian Navy in any part of [...] As regards the question of control the answer of Lord Winterton was that the army in India was not under the control of the Indian Legislature and that it would be anomalous and inconvenient from an administrative point of view if the control of the navy were vested in the Legislture. [...] It emphasises the dependence and subordination of the Goverment of India and its raisonne d'etre is the traditional view that the British Parliament is the trustee for the people of British fndia and that the Government of India themselves require to he looked after and cannot be expected to exercise the same vigilance and scrupulous regard for the interests of the people as the British Parliam [...] It is a result of the new orientation of the naval policy of the British Empire which is due to the conviction that the centre of gravity in international affairs has shifted eastwards to the Pacific Ocean and which has already led to the construction of the naval base at Singapore.
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The Royal Indian Navy
425-429 P.S. Aiyer view
India and Australia
430-432 T. Rangachariar view
Ceylon’s Status in the British Political System
433-435 Nihal Singh view
The Rev. W. T. Satthianadhan
436-442 unknown view
Compartive Colonial Policy
442-442 E. Macphail view
Economic Morality
443-445 S.V. Rao view
The Father of Modern Socialism
446-447 Syed Husain view
New Afghanistan
447-452 V.B. Metta view
Music in Disguise
452-455 H.P. Rao view
The Chakras
456-456 K.R. Applachari view
World Events
457-459 A.J. Saunders view
The Genius of Rabindranath
460-462 K.S. Sastri view
The World of Books
463-464 unknown view
Export of Oil-Seeds
465-467 B.T. Kale view
The Story of My Experiments with Truth
468-472 Mahatma Gandhi view
Topics from Periodicals
473-480 unknown view
Questions of importance
481-481 unknown view
Hitterances of the Day
482-482 unknown view
Indian States
483-483 unknown view
Indians Outside India
484-484 unknown view
Industrial and Commercial Section
485-485 unknown view
Agricultural Section
486-486 unknown view
Madical
487-487 unknown view
Science
488-488 unknown view
Literary
489-489 unknown view
Educational
490-490 unknown view
Legal
491-491 unknown view
Personal
492-492 unknown view
Political
493-493 unknown view
Sport
494-494 unknown view
General
495-495 unknown view
Diary of the Month
496-496 unknown view