The Indian Review  July 1927  A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Discussion of All Topics of Interest

Summary

At the Imperial Conference of 1926 it was resolved to re-affirm the resoltions of the Conferences of 1923 which laid426 THE INDIAN REVIEW [ juLY 1927 down among other things that each portion of the Empire represented at the Conference was primarily responsible for its own local defence and that it was for the Parliaments of the several parts of the Empire upon the recomendations of their [...] The obnoxious features of the Bill are that the control of the proposed navy is vested not in the Government of India but in the Imperial Government that the provision for recruiment for Naval Commissions is wrong in principle in that it imposes no statutory obligtion for the manning of the ships by Indians and that it enables the Imperial Government to employ the Indian Navy in any part of [...] As regards the question of control the answer of Lord Winterton was that the army in India was not under the control of the Indian Legislature and that it would be anomalous and inconvenient from an administrative point of view if the control of the navy were vested in the Legislture. [...] It emphasises the dependence and subordination of the Goverment of India and its raisonne d'etre is the traditional view that the British Parliament is the trustee for the people of British fndia and that the Government of India themselves require to he looked after and cannot be expected to exercise the same vigilance and scrupulous regard for the interests of the people as the British Parliam [...] It is a result of the new orientation of the naval policy of the British Empire which is due to the conviction that the centre of gravity in international affairs has shifted eastwards to the Pacific Ocean and which has already led to the construction of the naval base at Singapore.

Title	Pages	Author/Editor
The Royal Indian Navy	425-429	P.S. Aiyer	View
India and Australia	430-432	T. Rangachariar	View
Ceylon’s Status in the British Political System	433-435	Nihal Singh	View
The Rev. W. T. Satthianadhan	436-442	unknown	View
Compartive Colonial Policy	442-442	E. Macphail	View
Economic Morality	443-445	S.V. Rao	View
The Father of Modern Socialism	446-447	Syed Husain	View
New Afghanistan	447-452	V.B. Metta	View
Music in Disguise	452-455	H.P. Rao	View
The Chakras	456-456	K.R. Applachari	View
World Events	457-459	A.J. Saunders	View
The Genius of Rabindranath	460-462	K.S. Sastri	View
The World of Books	463-464	unknown	View
Export of Oil-Seeds	465-467	B.T. Kale	View
The Story of My Experiments with Truth	468-472	Mahatma Gandhi	View
Topics from Periodicals	473-480	unknown	View
Questions of importance	481-481	unknown	View
Hitterances of the Day	482-482	unknown	View
Indian States	483-483	unknown	View
Indians Outside India	484-484	unknown	View
Industrial and Commercial Section	485-485	unknown	View
Agricultural Section	486-486	unknown	View
Madical	487-487	unknown	View
Science	488-488	unknown	View
Literary	489-489	unknown	View
Educational	490-490	unknown	View
Legal	491-491	unknown	View
Personal	492-492	unknown	View
Political	493-493	unknown	View
Sport	494-494	unknown	View
General	495-495	unknown	View
Diary of the Month	496-496	unknown	View

The Indian Review July 1927 A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Discussion of All Topics of Interest

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