India May 1931

Gandhi had the last word in a recent issue of Young India when he declared " India stands in no need of conversion from one faith to another. conversion in the sense of self-purification is the crying need of the time." And after all when you come to think of it there is a good deal of sense in that point of view. [...] Bottom : A group taken at the Government House Bombay prior to the departure of Lord and Lady Irwin 16INDIA May 1931 AT THE QATEIDAII OF INDIA Bottom left : Lord Willingdon inspecting the Guard of Honour of the Royal Indian Marine. [...] Since that time horse breeding in India has been under the control of the Army Remount Dpartment and the success resulting from the devoted efforts of the Officers of that Department has been remarkable. [...] 0 0 0 Spring Captains These persons are supposed to grow only in India and like the Edelweiss flourish best in the Hills during the first leave season ; but even in this fickle climate they are to be met with on occasion and at the Grand Military at Sandown they were nearly as thick as the primroses are in the woods pr72"1.1\ 1)1 1.it(tv toil claiming the end of the hunting season. [...] In my time the arrival of the Viceregal Stall—always a most decorative hody—ri either Simla in say April winch was about the time h(ity did arrive or in Calcutta when that proud city was the capital of the Indian Epire caused some of the loveliest and best to have something like a heart attack.