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The Asiatic Review. April 1938

1938

Whether the sun is setting over the hills that march on China or Siam and make the Shan States so fair a paradise or i roadcning and dimming the shadows as they steal across the mighty Irrawaddy or is turning to deeper pink the powdered mother of pearl that forms the marge of the goo islets of the Mergui Archipelago or is blotting out the lines of the kazins on the paddy fields—no one I believ [...] Under the earlier Government of India Acts Burma had been one of the Prvinces of British India and subordinate to the authority of the Central Government of India; the executive authority in Burma"Burma in Transition 229 being the Governor two members of Council appointed by the Crown and two ministers appointed by the Governor whowere members of the Legislative Council. [...] Mass opinion like mass hysteria is the negation of democracy and the two main differences between the new Constitution in Burma and that which preceded it are (i.) that the Government of Burma is no longer subordinate to the Government of India and (ii.) that the office of member of Council appointed by the Crown is abolished and the ministers (at present seven in number) who now form the Execut [...] For the vital question appears to me to be not what are the details of the new Constitution but whether the electors in the constituencies and their representatives to whom"232 Burma in Transition has been entrusted the right to determine the policy under which the country is to be administered will prove equal to the responsbilities that have been cast upon them. [...] And the reason is not far to seek for the controlling ifluence in the life of a Hindu as it seems to me is not his religion or his caste or his community but his family; and among orthodox Hindus the management and outlook of the family is determined by the Karta or senior male member whose paramount concern is to see that the members of the family act not in the interest of the community
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Proceedings of the East India Association Burma in Transition
225-243 Arthur Page view
Reception to Sir John Anderson
244-252 unknown view
Tuberculosis in India: The King Emperor’s Fund
253-255 unknown view
The India Museum at South Kensington
256-259 unknown view
The Working of the New Constitution in India
260-281 The Marquess of Lothian view
The Hindu Almanac
282-288 W.E. Wijk view
The Netherlands East Indies
289-304 Count J.P. Limburg Stirum view
The Security of Indo-China and Siamese Imperialism
305-314 Fernand Bernard view
Thoughts on Federation
315-323 A.G. Morkill view
The Opening of a Coffee Estate in the Bababudan Hills
324-330 R.O. Oliver view
Cultural Developments in Hyderabad
331-339 B.S. Townroe view
The Hygiene Conference in Java: Some of the Leading Personalities
340-348 A.S. Haynes view
The Indian Opium Trade: An Historical Review
349-359 H.B. Dunnicliff view
Indian Economists in Conference
360-366 Edwin Haward view
Palestine Agriculture Past and Present
367-376 M.T. Dawe view
The Academia Sinica
377-385 Chu Chia-Hua view
Reviews of Books
386-414 unknown view