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...this "fireside talk" quality of the Marquess of Linlithgow's speech-afterward broadcast in native tongues-which popularly caught on, but the speech also contained extraordinarily meaty and precise encouragement and instructions for thousands of Britons and Indians performing all sorts of functions vital to the Raj. For example the District Officers, many of them Britons of fine calibre doing their best for local Indian communities but harassed by having to write interminable reports to the Centre, were given a kindly hint by the Viceroy to ease up on this scrivening and get out on more camping trips among...
Under the eaves of Central Asia's towering Hindu Kush Mountains lie the farthermost outposts of the British Raj's power in India, in the Northwest Frontier Province. There last week Britain slapped down with overwhelming force a perilous little rebellion, just north of Khyber Pass, in the land of the Upper Mohmands...
...first time into Upper Mohmand land. To Badshah Gul, son of the Haji of Turangzai, toward whose mountain plain the Gandab Road seemed directly pointed, the road looked menacing. The Haji's son began to pick off the native road laborers from ambush. Last week the British Raj set out to spank the Haji...
Prime fear of the British last week was that the superstitious natives would blame the whole thing on the British Raj, for the shaken area was entirely within the northern square of Baluchistan which Britain rules as a territory. And the ancient citadel of the Khan of Kalat, friend of the British, lay in ruins, as though for a judgment...
...Mahanadi delta on the Bay of Bengal, the feudal Rajah of Athgarh is freer of the British Crown than most of his great brother princes. His people are primitive Dravidians, his realm is small, he pays no tribute and is left pretty much to himself by the British Raj. Dearer to him than his elaborate pedigree, as imaginative as it is long, is his pack of 80 police dogs. Trained to hunt man, the pack has proved a failure at hunting India's leopards and black bucks, a success at frightening the citizens of Athgarh...