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India in Transition: a Study in Political Evolution by His Highness the Aga Khan

1918

The moulding influences have been wide and varied : Greek and Roman civilisation and the many religions that arose in the first century of the Christian era in the Eastern and the Western provinces of the Roman Empire ; Christianity and its chequered history ; then the Reformation and the counter-Reformation the hundred and one spiritual movements which like ripples on a lake rose and fell in [...] The future of the Iberian Republics of the New World the existence or disruption of China the continuation of rivalry or the dawn of reconciliation and union in Europe these are the only three other great world issues that can be compared in importance to that which with diffidence and an appeal for the forbearance and patience of my readers I discuss in the ensuing chapters. [...] How are we to provide the means for meeting such crying needs of India ? There are only two ways : either by co-operation between the Government and the governed and by discussion proving to the reprsentatives of the people the need and thus making the Indian public itself the judge of the extent Of the necessary sacrifice ; or by mere fiat and mandate of the Supreme Government imposing taxat [...] As the examples of the United States and Germany on the one hand and of Russia on the other have shown the real danger of a break-up does not come from meeting the wishes of the different component parts but from over-centralisation and the enforcment of an unnatural uniformity. [...] I yield to no one in the itense horror and detestation I feel in respect to the remorseless barbarity the disregard of intenational obligations as to the rules of war the treachery and trickery and the enslavement of the inhabitants of conquered areas which have digraced the German name in the last four years.
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Pages
324
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.142628
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Frontmatter
i-xii Aga Khan view
Chapter I. Social Organisation
1-14 unknown view
Chapter II. The Reasons for Reform
15-32 unknown view
Chapter III. A Federal Basis
33-42 unknown view
Chapter IV. Provincial Reorganisation
43-53 unknown view
Chapter V. The Protected States
54-61 unknown view
Chapter VI. The Central Government
62-68 unknown view
Chapter VII. The Viceroyalty
69-81 unknown view
Chapter VIII. Local Self-Government
82-88 unknown view
Chapter IX. The Civil Service
89-97 unknown view
Chapter X. The Police
98-103 unknown view
Chapter XI. The Judiciary
104-112 unknown view
Chapter XII. Overseas Settlements
113-122 unknown view
Chapter XIII. India’s Claim to East Africa
123-132 unknown view
Chapter XIV. Foreign Policy
133-141 unknown view
Chapter XV. Germany’s Asiatic Ambitions
142-155 unknown view
Chapter XVI. Islamic and Turanian Movements
156-161 unknown view
Chapter XVII. The Path to Wider Confederation
162-172 unknown view
Chapter XVIII. Army and Navy
173-185 unknown view
Chapter XIX. Industries and Tariffs
186-192 unknown view
Chapter XX. Credit and Commerce
193-200 unknown view
Chapter XXI. Agriculture
201-214 unknown view
Chapter XXII. Education for the Masses
215-223 unknown view
Chapter XXIII. Higher Education
224-232 unknown view
Chapter XXIV. Public Health
233-243 unknown view
Chapter XXV. The Depressed Classes
244-252 unknown view
Chapter XXVI. The Status of Women
253-263 unknown view
Chapter XXVII. British and Indian Social Relations
264-269 unknown view
Chapter XXVIII. Efficiency and Stability
270-275 unknown view
Chapter XXIX. The Limits of British Trusteeship
276-285 unknown view
Chapter XXX. India’s Share in the War
286-294 unknown view
Chapter XXXI. Co-Ordinated Progress
295-302 unknown view
Index
303-310 unknown view
Other Books on Oriental Subjects
i-ii unknown view

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