Modern Review November 1940

ruling for the first time over :t nreater India—an achievement which is still not equalled in the later annals—that extended right up to the borders of Persia and over modern Afghanistan and Baluchistan He was also the first Indian King to bring the valleys of the Indus and of the five rivers of the Punjab as well as the valleys of the Ganges and the Jumna under one political authority and overco [...] And the Indian National Congress Which exists for the protection of the rights and interests of all communities does not usually evince any particular interest in the safeguarding of the honour and the safety of women. [...] of the resolution : The working committee having given their moat anxious consideration to the Viceregal announcement of August 6 and the statements made by the Viceroy and the Secretarryy of State from time to time in elutdialect and cllarification of the same and having carfully noted the reactions to the same in this country have no hesitation to declare that the scheme and the proposals [...] They virtually negative the promise to recognise the principle of self-determintion in the case of the people of India in the matter of framing their constitution oven in the fun part of the announoesnent and are even calculated to incite and eneourace the minorities to insist on impossible and anti-natsonal demands and effectively impede the prgress of the entire nation towards the goal of [...] In this conection the committee desire to invite the attention of the Government of India to the frequent complaints published in papers that the claims of the Hindus do not receive adequate recognition in the matter of rcruitment to certain branches of national defence actvities.