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The Asiatic Review April 1940

1940

0208 India's Military Contribution to the War heights and valleys to the tropical forests and rice-fields of the south and from the waterless deserts of the north-west to the steamy water-logged districts on the east; and thus we find within the limits of India an almost infinite range of vegetation and of agricultural products—timber fruits seeds rubber cotton jute sugar-cane grains etc. [...] We know from the experiences of the last war that besides the troops sent by India to France and various Mediterranean theatres her forces served on the Canal in Egypt on the shores of the Red Sea at Aden in Mesopotamia and elsewhere on the shores of the Persian Gulf on the one hand; and further east in Singapore and as far afield as Hongkong Shanghai etc. [...] The Maharaja of Bikanir of the fighting Rajput stock who served at the head of his own troops in the last war has offered to raise and maintain six battalions of infantry and the services of his Camel Corps doubled in strength. [...] On the very first day of the last war the then Prime Minister of Nepal Sir Chandra Shumshere Jung placed the whole resources of his country at the disposal of the KinEmperor and in addition to doubling the number of Gurkhas serving with the Indian Army for the period of the war he despatched a large force of his own army to India under the command of his own sons and nephews. [...] He said : From the beginning there has been no question as to the attitude of public opinion in India whether in British India or in the Indian States towards our objectives in fighting this war—the destruction of Hitlerism the restoration of the standards of fair dealing and of morality between nations the re-establishment of the sanctity of the pledged word of treaties between great peoples
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Frontmatter
i-x unknown view
India’s Military Contribution to the War
207-225 Frederick O’connor view
The Muslims of India the War and the Political Field
226-250 A. Ali view
World-Wide Reaction to Events in India
251-278 Basil Mathews view
Afghanistan: the Present Position
279-311 Percy Sykes view
The Indian Attitude Towards the War Aims of the Allies
312-316 Albion Banerji view
India’s Constitutional Future
317-322 Alfred Watson view
The Soldiers of India on Duty
323-326 Field-Marsha Birdwoo view
The French Empire and the War
327-334 J.L. Gheerbrandt view
The Eastern Question
335-337 Burhan Belge view
Some Aspects of China’s Relations with the Soviet Union
338-345 W.W. Yen view
New Routes into Old China
346-350 W.A. Farmer view
Malacology: Science of Mollusks and Its Relation to Human Welfare
351-358 Teng-Chien Yen view
Notes On Mineral Research in North Borneo
359-371 W.J. Worth view
Malaya’s War Effort
372-374 G.E. Cator view
Travels in the Ancient Province of Armenia Minor—II
375-385 E.H. King view
India’s War-Time Trade and Finance
386-398 R.W. Brock view
Reviews of Books
399-422 unknown view
Backmatter
i-ii unknown view