Modern Review September 1929

the sun of Akbar was still crowning the azure " as a French poet has put it ; (which is true in the sense that the Indian sky was still radiant with the after-glow of Akbar's reign.) Early in the reign of her father after the death of her mother (1631) she became the first lady in the land and the power behind the throne of the most magnificent of the Grand Mughals and continued in that high po [...] Tomb of Nizam-ud-din At this time by reason of the occurrence of disturbances...characteristic of the present age...from the violence of turbulent men disorder had taken place in the transaction of the business of the administration of the realm far and near and utter ruin has befallen the peasants and the weak. [...] and the north-west corner of India opened the way to the influx of the superstitious beliefs of the Greeks the Yavanas of old Sanskrit India yielded to the alluring prospect of achieving results through the good offices of "stars " and instead of breaking loose the fetters forged in foreign lands seemed to delight in multiplying them on the pattern of the Yavanas. [...] The construction of the dam at Aswan and of the barrages across the Nile has enabled the holding back of the flood during the season of high water and its dispersion and ditribution through irrigation canals with the result that intensive cultivation of cotton has been made possible and the economic situation relieved to a great extent One of the most acute problems facing the people of Egypt [...] Also the government of the Sudan from the time of its reconquest till the murder of Sir Lee Stack was placed under the joint control of England and Egypt Dependent as the very life of Egypt is on the water of the river she could be content neither with the promise of the British Government nor with' the 'codominium in the -Sudan.