Word: indias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tall Briton, whose air of habitual command betrayed his lineage, arrived last week at Bombay, India. Some weeks before he had taken leave of the King-Emperor at London, had left that monarch to endure his well known bronchial affliction amid the damp of England. At Bombay, the arriving Briton took the oath of allegiance as Viceroy of India, then he prepared to whirl inland to Delhi, the Imperial Capital. At Delhi, where the new Imperial city is rapidly being transformed by British architects into an earthly paradise, the stalwart Englishman will shortly begin to reign "in the name...
...they outshone by the trinkets of the Nizam* of Hyderabad, "the richest man on earth," a potentate privately possessed of five million acres of crown lands and tangible stores of gold and gems weighing several tons, a monarch who reigns with medieval absolutism over the largest native state in India, over 13 million souls...
...interim title "Lord Irwin" only during his viceroyship** or until his father dies. His choice as Viceroy is regarded as felicitous in the extreme, because his grandfather, the first Viscount Halifax, was raised to that estate for his success (as "Sir Charles Wood, Secretary of State for India") in completely reorganizing the government of India after it was taken over from the old East India Co. Since Sir Charles Wood won the enduring gratitude of the Indian reigning houses by relieving them of the exploitation of early British misrule, his grandson is automatically persona grata at Delhi...
...book is the clearness with which the author demonstrates that, however many danger-spots exist today in international politics, there are few examples of friction between neighboring nations. Whether the problem concerns the Mediterranean, rivalry for the Straits, the Suex or the Panama Canal, control over the way to India, the problem of the Pacific,--each is equally important, each has an influence over the policy of the great powers and, consequently, wherever controversy becomes too strained, a great number of states are immediately involved...
...will include field trips in geology, geography comparative government and sociology. Language courses both on the boat and ashore will be conversational, and the study of literature will be divorced from chonology and allied to geography, so that students will read Loti in Japan Conrad in Java, Kipling in India, the Greek and Roman classics in the Mediterranean Fielding and Thackeray in London."Hamlet" in Denmark...