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The Asiatic Review January 1943

1943

It was therefor% determined by the Council that the occasion should be marked by the reading of a paper surveying the progress of India during the past three-quarters of a century and showing in what manner the activities of the Association have helped to influence the course of events. [...] In 1866 the sub-continent had just recovered from the t ffects of the mutiny of the Bengal Army; the Crown had lately taken over the Govern-"4 1866-1942: India Then and Now ment from the hands of the East India Company; the last of the internal wars had been fought and under a unified control achieved for the first time in history the stage was set for a general advance to better things. [...] But the very peace and security enjoyed under the protection of the British Crown has brought a fresh problem in its train The consequence of the improvement in public health and the cessation of internal war has been a vast increase in the number of the population. [...] He had put forward the view very rightly that it was one of the functions of the Association to dispel the colossal ignorance of the people of Britain in regard to India and he would add to the word ignorance " the word " indiffeence." After the war we in England should know a great deal more than yve did of the United States of America and of Russia and China and whatever might be the fu [...] Many people thought that owing to what had happened in Malaya Burma and the Far East there might be a chance of the people becoming sympathizers of the Axis; but apart from the fact that the foundation of that was wrong and had been contradicted by the statesmen of his country and apart from the fact that there was no excessive fifth column activity in those parts of the Empire occupied by the J
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Frontmatter
i-ii unknown view
1866—1942: India Then and Now
1-15 Lord Erskine view
Reception to India’s Representatives at the War Cabinet
16-21 unknown view
Importance of the Study of Oriental Languages and Culture
21-32 Lord Hailey view
India Today
33-44 M. Huque view
The Indian Crisis: Muslim Viewpoints
44-63 Hassan Suhraward view
Akbar The Great: Anniversary Celebrations
63-67 unknown view
The Future of India and the Princes
67-76 H.H. view
Reflections on the Indian Congress Movement
76-80 Norman Goodall view
India: Partition or Unity
80-82 Stanley Rice view
Japan in Java
82-85 H.J. Mook view
The Japanese Policy in the Occupied Territories
85-89 Petter Hume view
Soviet Asia Today
89-93 Violet Conolly view
Europe and the Turks in the Early Middle Ages—II
94-99 J.S. Runciman view
A Letter from Turkey
99-102 E.W.F. Tomlin view
Some Aspects of Japan’s Supply Problems Since the Outbreak of the War
103-106 N.A.J. Voogd view
Kashmir and the War
107-109 William Barton view
Indian States and India’s Political Future
110-111 unknown view
Backmatter
i-iii unknown view