Word: indias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...headed by that great Liberal barrister Sir John Simon, and empowered to investigate how great a measure of self government it is to the advantage of Great Britain to extend to India...
...great and brilliant Earl of Birkenhead. now Secretary of State for India, recently Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (1919-22), and previously the Right Honorable and irrepressible "Galloper Smith" of the House of Commons, could scarcely have been unaware last week, that his elder daughter, Lady Eleanor Smith, had so far departed from the family tradition of wit as to pen for a London newspaper the following bit of groveling gossip: "A friend of mine has just had installed a type of bath tub which will permit her to receive guests of both sexes while bathing. . . . The bath...
...become the medium of instruction in the majority of the public schools. But this revivefication of language and culture is but a phase of the nationalistic movement that is sweeping the world. In Russia, in Italy, in China, the symptoms have been the cause of international attention. Yesterday in India, natives decreed a day of mourning, and evoked bloodshed by rioting at the appearance of the Royal Commission on Indian Reforms, whose health measures come into sharp conflict with caste tradition...
...underneath all runs a serious attitude, and this attitude is in part enhanced by each student's undivided work, for after the age of 17. every boy has chosen his profession, and all his studies are viewed from the angle of his future profession or the ultimate welfare of India. Medicine, law, engineering, and business are the chief occupations of the college graduates...
Referring to the outcome of the gradual industrial development of India, Mukerji held the view that in the end, neither India nor the world at large could gain. "In 50 years," said he, "foreign countries can not expect to compete with the mass production of such a large population, and as for the natives themselves, India is a tropical country; why should her people work indoors when they are healthier and happier working outdoors...