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... India , where his father worked in the Civil Service . The family moved to England when he was very young . He was crammed for a scholarship to Eton but after getting there in 1917 he did little work . He left in 1921 and joined the Indian ...
... India , where his father worked in the Civil Service . The family moved to England when he was very young . He was crammed for a scholarship to Eton but after getting there in 1917 he did little work . He left in 1921 and joined the Indian ...
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... India any- thing that could truly be called independence , India would simply have been absorbed by Japan , or divided between Japan and Russia . To a Labour government in power , three imperial policies would have been open . One was ...
... India any- thing that could truly be called independence , India would simply have been absorbed by Japan , or divided between Japan and Russia . To a Labour government in power , three imperial policies would have been open . One was ...
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... India , and for the training of Indians in all the arts which , so far , they have been systematically prevented from learning . How many of the existing British personnel in India , commercial or official , would fall in with such an ...
... India , and for the training of Indians in all the arts which , so far , they have been systematically prevented from learning . How many of the existing British personnel in India , commercial or official , would fall in with such an ...
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