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The Asiatic Review January 1926

1926

CONTENTS : Biographical Sketch—Suttee : The Burning of Widows— The Character of Hindu Women—Suttee and the Shastras—Address to Lord William Bentinck—Petition to the House of Commons—The Rights of Women—Freedom of the Press—Memorial to the Supreme Court—Appeal to the King-in-Council—English Education in India— Religious Toleration—Prospects of Christianity in India—Rights of a Hindu over Ancestral [...] The author reviews the recent economic history of India dealing with the alternating periods of agricultural depression and prosperity and the decline of the old and the progress of the new forms of industry. [...] Such a view ignores entirely the labours of several generations of revenue and settlement officers the remarkable results already achieved by the agricultural departments the entire machinery of co-operative credit the activities of the veterinary officers and the wonderful effects upon India's prosperity of the great irrigation works and railways. [...] The greatest results can only be achieved by the co-operation and co-ordination of the efforts of the revenuofficer the agricultural departments the irrigation engineer and the registrar of co-operative credit. [...] For example he sought to provide for the interests of the subordinate governments by giving them representatives at the meetings of the Council for the passing of laws and regulations ; he sought to secure a higher standard of legislative form by *ling the Chief Justice of Bengal and one of the puisne judges.
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Frontmatter
i-xiv unknown view
Two Indian Landmarks
1-6 Reginald H. Craddock view
Sir Charles Wood
7-14 H Dodwell view
India and the League of Nations
15-20 Nagendra Gangulee view
The Psychology of the Chinese
21-32 Taw Ko view
Her Highness the Begum of Bhopal
33-36 M.J. Meade view
Zionism and Palestine
37-45 F. H. Tyrrell view
Correspondence
45-48 unknown view
Proceedings of the East India Association
49-62 C.F. Silberrad view
Discussion on the Foregoing Paper
63-74 unknown view
The Warp and the Woof of the Fabric of Indian Life
75-82 R.K. Sorabji view
Discussion on the Foregoing Paper
83-90 unknown view
The Moral Regeneration of Persia
91-95 Faranghi view
Science and Medicine Section
96-101 G Dodson view
Commercial Section Recent Indian Trade Statistics
102-112 unknown view
Ghost and Vampire Tales of China—II
113-128 G Meade view
Literary Section Civilizations—East and West
129-137 Stanley Rice view
Reviews of Books
138-160 Osvald Sire view
Shorter Notices
161-164 unknown view
Orientalia
165-176 Warren Dawson view