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The Asiatic Review (Formerly the “Asiatic Quarterly Review”) January 1936

1936

I was well aware of the complexity of the question and of the fact that no man with the possible exception of Secretaries of the Political Department of the Government of India could claim to be fully informed of the circumstances of all the States throughout the subcontinent of India. [...] Like many other officers of the Executive Branch of the Bombay Government I have had political charge of some of the States which were until recently under the care of that Government; in various posts in the Secretariat I have had further contact with the affairs of those States; and finally I have had the privilege of being connected for more than three years with the administrtion of the pr [...] THE WISHES OF THE PEOPLE It may perhaps be suggested that I have dealt too exclusively with the feelings and interests of the Rulers and have not cosidered sufficiently the wishes and the aspirations of the people of the States. [...] The abstention of the greatest Indian Prince has been a far more serious loss to the Chamber of Princes than the absence of the United States is to the League of Nations to which in some points the Chamber of Princes is curiously analogous. [...] And if there could be such an instrument of policy I feel sure that it would be able to exert a very strong moral influence on the States themselves and would help to ensure that the administration of all the States was up to a reasonable stanaard; and at the same time it should help the Hindu representatives of the States to come to some reasonable agreement with the opposition in the Federal As
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Frontmatter
i-v unknown view
The Accession of the Princes to Federation
1-22 Patrick Cadell view
An Artist’s Impressions of Hyderabad State٭
23-33 Marguerite Milward view
Rural Welfare in India and China
34-59 C.F. Strickland view
Reception to Lord and Lady Zetland
60-63 unknown view
The Imperial Council of Agricultural Research India
64-84 T. Acharya view
Fecent Progress in China
85-90 E.H. Anstice view
The Japanese and Shanghai
91-98 O.M. Green view
The International Exhibition of Chinese Art
99-103 Quo Tai-Chi view
Sylvain Levi: a Memory
104-106 Ranjee Shahani view
The Economic Development of the Middle East
107-111 Alfred Marcus (Haifa) view
Indigenous and Other Non-European Labour Legislation in the Netherlands Indies
112-131 J. Woudstra view
Agricultural Indebtedness in an Indian State a Bhavnagar Experiment
132-144 A.H.E. Mosse view
Recent Progress on Indian Railways
145-154 V.P. Bhandarkar view
Cultural Relations with Japan
155-158 Baron Dan view
French Impressions of India
159-168 Stanley Rice view
Japanese Industrialization and the British Empire
169-180 Isoshi Asahi view
The International Congress and Exhibition of Iranian Art at Leningrad
181-189 Arthur Pope view
Insurance Business in India
190-196 R.W. Brock view
The Position of the Netherlands East Indies in World Economics
197-202 Charles Morrell view
Reviews of Books
203-222 unknown view