Show AND I 1 ITS I 1 S PEOPLES by copler copi L R claud C laud robinson what Is india in generalities the ncr aser E age sa s1 zail knows very little tile about india space there has ha not i been annihilated 2 S 0 0 in our nest em cIvIl lut ion by telegraphs split newspaper I 1 ticks telephones ft vi lr IM less and movies moiles to comprehend match end country C antry even en slightly you must 1 1 I sit it to know it still better you must le ike in it and tornow to know it belt best of ill all roil you must not only live in a country but study it its reo pie their customs cu and mode or of illing wing illi wi I 1 don i 2 per tent of americans ba have e had laid the nd advantage vanta e of seeing india it Is not uprising ur pris therefore that we me have the habit of leaking king as it if it t were a country like ininee 1 or italy in lead stead of a continent or combination of countries like europe we are apt to forget that india has V population of 3 compo compiled oed of different races peak speak ing different languages and practicing different religions we ve also forget the fur for reaching results 0 or caste a social or class system under which cury emery hindi I 1 Is a two into a group which for life defines left nes lla bli occupation method of living and nd eren even marriage marr lafe limitations there are 2400 alinda castes in india and it Is difficult to reallie realize that TO hindus out of a total of are tire looked upon by the caltea abo aboia them as abler able or ou thousands of year years ago when the conquering aryans descended from the north and became ruler rulers anil and mt int attro of india they formed a higher civilization than the dark thick featured aborigines and to preserve their on purity 0 of race decided to exclude the earlier race from their more intimate social soc lal set thus originated this body of touching them theta or even eien coming into remote contact with them lades the I 1 ugh ih caste hindus in ceremonial defilement it t Is interesting to note that in a recent utterance the leiman of thel e 7 people declared himself entirely opposed to the pol icy ot of mahatma blah atma ardill Au dill the insil cator of the movement of kassise resistance in india just imagine then a region the tile lie size of all europe exclusive only of russia stretching over mer 23 28 d dol trees of latitude and 40 degrees of longitude with a population of 10 practicing nine great religions and speaking different dialects belon belong grig ng to bit sit distinct families of spee ell that Is india from the point of bew lew of the sta statistics usually are dull dul and rind commonplace things lings ti but at least in the case of india we vie may say that they are startling if their meaning Is to ie ile grasped we mast must clothe thein them with will flesh and blood this an art only be done by hard and extensive tru traveling in that va vast r 3 gerlous and romantic land the highway to india F N tre tte dawn of history india a 1 has been the victim of invasion after invasion bilat of the gatey vily through which these invasions came c me A little north of latitude IR 34 a natural cut in the mountains ams 43 for a distances of 20 ralles froia froin bamrud on the edep of the trans indus plata to an open spot at tit landl khana on the border of afghanistan it la Is known as the piss pits until the adi advent eat of sea power this historic constituted practically the only channel through which could enter the many hair ittia emes ethes which have 1 played so 80 large a ft part vart in shaping the destinies of india it 0 provided the main inlet through which flowed the tide of aryan arlin stock which took root in th the fertile soil of tile ganges valley ind gae to the world the rich gift of indian thought and civilization many centuries later though st still il 1 00 years lars before the christlen Chrls tUn e era M a western civilization lured by the ile story of the tile richness of the country which lay toy beyond for the arst time if ane trod its stona pith P ath this wai was the invasion of alexander alexandr the gmt grel A thousand years after christ came another conqueror mahmud all mud of opening up an other momentous chapter in he the story ct of the continent was wa out for plunder an and d he met and defeated the at posha war this marled marked iho tho beginning of it mohammedan invasion which was to end the dynasty the splendor of whose allay Is 13 perhaps in to the annals of the world today the khyber pass pas plays I 1 less historic part park but Is still a it w via bitone the uain land thor ough ou fare blare between india and central and castern asia BY nn an agreement made rith with the agridis towards the end of the last century the tile safety of the pass was wa entrusted to the tribe which provided a body of men for parl and escort duties more re rec centi entil this corps was placed on a regular basis basi s paid armea armed and off officered leered by british officer officers and became regiment regla eat known as 1 the khyber a rifle tle time road is 13 now nr and traded and yog yoni may travel it 1 in comfort by automobile and view ae the treat great fort of landl tia lie 0 outpost of great britain B itala in it lut it direction of afghanistan a be L inloe dion |