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The Asiatic Review (Formerly The Asiatic Quarterly Review) April 1936

1936

of our total exports the prosperity of the country and the maintenance of the purchaing power of the Indian people are of the first importance to United Kingdom industry. [...] 1. The improvement in political relations which followed the collapse of the boycott agitation was partly due to the natural reaction of the traders of the country following a prolonged period of disturbance to their livelihood which brought so many of them to the verge of ruin and accentuated the effects of the world-wide economic crisis. [...] In attempting to arrive at even the most approximate estimate of the benefits conferred by the preferences one is faced with the practical impossibility of isolating the effects of the preferences from the effects of other factors such as the course of the trade cycle the depreciation of the Japanese exchange vital changes in demand and supply of specific commodities and so on. [...] Apart from the severe contraction in demand due to the curtailment of capital works and to the fall in the consumtion of galvanized sheets attributable to the depression in the jute districts the principal reason for the decline in imports is the rapidly mounting production of the Tata Iron and Steel Com-. pany. [...] The political situation is such that anything may happen.254 Our Export Trade with India Less than six years ago in a paper* read before this Association on the same subject attention was drawn to the harmful effects of the absorption of gold by India to the very large imports of wheat and rice due to a partial failure of the rains in 1928-29 and to the heavy drain on the resources of the coun
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The Death of King George V
223-225 unknown view
Our Export Trade with India: Recent Developments and Possibilities
226-256 Thomas Ainscough view
Indian Occultism: the Rope-Trick and Other Phenomena
257-284 G.H. Rooke view
The Indian Scene in 1935*
285-296 Rosie Newman view
The International Exhibition of Chinese Art: Some Reflections*
297-312 Percival David view
The International Exhibition of Chinese Art in Retrospect
313-325 F.Sr.G. Spendlove view
World Fellowship
326-329 Francis Younghusband view
The Naval Conference
330-334 R.N. view
Indian Gemstones
335-341 G.H. Tipper view
Tourists and Archæology in India
342-350 Stanley Rice view
The Jammu and Kashmir State Assembly and Its Progress
351-354 Barjor Dalal view
Problems of Labour Legislation in Japan
355-364 Y. Kamii view
The Weaving and Batik Industries in Java with Notes on Hat Making and Soap Boiling
365-376 Y. Kamii view
A Journey Through the Soviet Republic of Armenia
377-391 Eric King view
The Canton-Hankow Railway
392-400 C.C. Wang view
The Indian Budget: Prospects of Federal Finance
401-409 P.J. Thomas view
Hindusthani Music*
410-414 H.H. view
A French Traveller in India a Hundred Years Ago*
415-418 Philip Morrell view
The Economic Development of Indo-China
419-427 Octave Homberg view
The Doyen Of The Indian Princes’ Diamond Jubilee Celebrations
428-432 C.E. Newham view
Health and Housing in Hyderabad
433-443 B.S. Townroe view
Reviews of Books
444-461 unknown view
Backmatter
i-i unknown view