Show INDIA I 1 N U A AND ITS PEOPLES by copt capt L L R claud robinson THIS HE southern portion of the northwest frontier of india comprises a great tract of territory known as which forms a rouan square bounded by on the east afghanistan on the north and tin hersla and tile tie arabian sea on the wu west and south respectively air D 8 de bray rather aptly describes the physical characteristics of tills this country ns as R chaotic jumble of mud colored mountains for all tile the world like a herd of titanic camels outside the monsoon area the annual rainfall amounts to only nine indies inches consequently although the land is ex fertile Is stunted the peoples of tit it appropriately pria tely enough into the somewhat rough setting getting which nature tills has provided their occupations are chiefly agriculture camel driving and flock owning and the standard of 0 their civilization Is primitive made up tip in the main of baluchie Balu and afghans they are picturesque to ID appearance and manly in bei bearing tring trouble is liable to descend upon them at any time from th the north where the lie borderland Is infested by wild and lawless tribes but inter triam warfare may he said to be a part pan of thelt existence and their attitude towards toward their northern neighbors Is and has li is always been one of thinly veiled antagonism Ingon ism which may at any moment breil out into anen hostility A british officer once asked a party nt af t hese borderland tribesmen what their attitude would be in the event of a war between great britain and russia the native replied we would just sit up lip here on our mountain tops watching you both fight until we saw one or other of you utterly defeated then we would come down rind and loot the vanquished the list last mule god Is great I 1 what a time that would be for us it would indeed for their favorite pastime Is raiding and thieving the peaking man of the hills of 0 and the northwest frontier are particularly selfish treacherous indle tive and ruel cruel women without noses are rather common in tribal territory victims of martial jealousy and vindictiveness the roll of englishman who have hare lost their lives through the treachery of these peoples Is a ion long one BRITAIN IN INDIA OT every one Is familiar with the NOT british conquest of india what americans should not forget Is that although they now rightly consider india and her present problems from an absolutely detached viewpoint in the very early history of the british in india hidia in many any of their ancestors quite likely played a glor glorious lous part parl the story goes lado 0 twenty years previous to the momentous voyage if tile the mayflower flower to the time ehn queen elizab elizabth elizabeth th established the 21 enst st indeli company at al that time rime the portuguese use ind had monopolized eastern trade for over a century they were e expelled pe ed by the elizabethan sailors for a hundred and fifty years the east india company traded in c corn petition with the fionch and dutch ta lio wel finally J eted by clive and warren hastings In stings the founders of british liritis li india these men not only defeated their competitors but g sated vast territories during the succeeding bundred and fifty years oy by a sl series arle of native wars find and dons alo is british india was made what ll it Is today the question mai ma well veil be at a such as the present when the eyes of the world are focused upon india what import important lint changes have resulted from british occupation ir r the lie first place a powerful and government has been established which has largely suppressed racial and religious warfare adain admin areas have been formed a great judicial system has been set up communications hao hae been improved by bv tile lie construct construction inn of roads rind and nearly fifty thousand miles of rall railways ways there Is an and fur far reaching postal system luge huge irrigation works have hake been carri curried e d outs out A year or so ago on one of the greatest ireat esl irrigation schemes in the world was hogun ond and 1 Is now going on its as tile the sukher barrage Hir tae in the this Is to cost cosi 37 it for nn in extensive system of 0 on both sides ol 01 tile the indus dudu rl rhetto ey to supply perennial irrigation ad 11 II Is expected that during the next tell seats the file cotton acrea acreage e in the Ilin lab will he doubled and between two and three million acres hlll be gilded added to tile the flient producing area A agriculture ri culture his has been improved industries dus fills tries bae heen created mines tin und oll oil wells have been sunk over primary and secondary schools have been billit universities and medical colleges have been established tropical diseases discuses have been mitigated many indian customs to humane ideas have been abolished operative cooperative co societies have be been n formed the land s salem fetn has haj been modernized and a fair stem of finance and taxation e tal asso western lulal Jc lual |