| Show AND INDIA ITS PEOPLES by copt capt L LR R claud Rob robinson III mou southern thern port portion ion of the TUB northwest frontier frontlet of india coin cota arises a great tract ot of territory known 0 hi 82 11 which form forms a rough square bounded by oil the east afghanistan 00 oo the north end and I 1 enia ersla at annl 1 I the arabia tea sea on the ft and south respectively mr sir ID S de bray rather aptly describes be physical characters char acteria ls lie tics of thi this country As a chaotic jumble of mud coland mountain mountains for all ail the world like a lierd berd of it ti tunic camels outside the mon soon area the annual rainfall amounts to only nine inches lac liei consequently quent ly although th the land I 1 Is ex tra fertile Is I 1 stunted the peoples of fit at AD 1 enough into the somewhat rough setting alch nature haa has their occupations are simple chiefly agriculture camel dehing and flock owning and find the standard of V their air civi civilize liza don li Is primi tite slide ap up in the lanin of Ra luchis ls and at guions bey are in ap op bearance pc pe arance and manly la in bearing hearing trouble I 1 Is liable to descend upon them at any time fron from the north where the borderland it infested by wild and lawless tribes but inter tribal trinal Allf allefare fare may be said to be a pan part of 0 their existence and their attitude jonardi their northern neighbor neighbors Is and has always been one of thinly veiled antagonism which may at any moment break out into open hostility A british officer once asked a party of ailiese borderland tribesmen m en what their attl tule would be lo 10 the event of war viar between gre great at britain and russia the native re plied ile e would just sit t up ip here on our mou mountain tops watching you both until we MW saw one or other of you utterly defeated then we would come down ind and loot the lobed until the last mule god ie Is creditt i a time that would be for us 1 it would indeed for heir their favorite pastime Is 13 raid ins and thieving Ihle the Ills lita spoiling willing men mon of th tho hills of and lie the north west est frontier are tire particularly selfish treacherous vindictive and cruel umen tt without doses noses are amther common in tribal territory victims of marital jealousy and vl via d the roll of english nieu who have lost their lives the treachery of these people Is a long one britain in india NOT OT eiery one Is I 1 familiar wito with the british conquest of indal what american should not 0 burgh Is that at although bough they nor now rightly consider india and tier pro pru r lema leins from an detached ilet ached viewpoint in the very early 1 history of file british in india many of heir their ancestor ancestors quite likely played a glorious part the story goes bark lack to 10 twenty year years previous to the momentous voyage of the to the time when queen established the kast fast indin india corn puny pany at that time tinte the portuguese imd had monopolized eastern trade for over a century they alie were ex by the elizabethan tailors for a hundred and fifty years the east fast india company traded in corn coin petition petIt lon with the french ind and dutch alin were finally ejected eject eil by clive and barren arren Ila hastings stings the famous founders of british indek these men not only defeated their corn mm peti tors but subjugated lub vast berd lories tortes during the succeeding nun bun dred and fifty year years by I 1 series of tot native nars and negotiations brit ish india was made what it is today the question may well be aked particularly at a time such ts the present when the ekes ee of the world are focused upon india hat fiat important change changes ho have e rf retailed from british occupation in the first place a powerful pov erful and effle efficient fent government hai has been es which has largely suppressed racial and religious ous war to fare re administrative a areas reas have been formed a great judicial ny tern has ha been set up comm untra tlona have been by the construction of roads and find nearly fifty thousand miles of railways there Is an efficient and far read reach ing postal posta system huge ion work works have been carried out A year or eo so ago one of ohp great est st irrigation i chemes in thi world as begun and Is now going on known as the farrago in to the this Is to cost it pro provides vIles for an extensive of canals on bh sides of the indus river to supply perennial 1 irrigation and it Is expected that i luring the next ten years lie the cot im in acreage in the ill be doubled and between beta een two end and three million acres will be added to the kiil wheat liil producing area agriculture has been improved industries hae we been created mines ind and oil wells have bare been sunk over primary and keon secondary econ dary have been built aril ties and medical colleges hare have been established tropical diseases disease have been mitigated 1 many indian cus tons toms repugnant ignant to humane ideas hive love been abolished oooo cool societies have love been formed the th land system has been mod edi lied ed ari a fair system ot of finance anil tr mallon cita blisheL Z KM destito Davet union |
