war. The custom was resumed on June 11, when Colonel Sir P. J. Freyer. kc.h., i.M.S. (retd.), was in the chair. The guests were the Right Hon. E S. Montagu, m.p., Principal Secretary of State for India ; Sir Norman Moore, Bt., President of the Royal College of Physicians? Lieut.-General Sir H. V. Cox, K.C.B., Military Secretary, India Office; Dr. James Neal, Deputy Medical Secretary, British Me...

The history of modern psychiatry in the Indian subcontinent is the story of the establishment of mental hospitals in India. Before the arrival of the British East India Company in 1600 there were no institutions to keep the insane. As such the early establishment of mental hospitals in the Indian sub-continent reflected the needs and demands of European patients in India during; the period. Lat...

Pharmacopoeia is an official reference containing a selected drugs/medicinal preparations with their description, tests for their identity, purity and potency and with their average doses. A few famous pharmacopoeia and other reference books are the Indian Pharmacopoeia (IP), the British Pharmacopoeia (BP); the United States Pharmacopoeia (USP); the British Pharmaceutical Codex (BPC); the Natio...

This is a description of the historical, physical and industrial features of the principal centres of mineral productions in the British Dominions beyond the seas, by Mr. R. Stokes, the late Mining Editor of the Rancl Daily Neivs of Johannesburg. It is a brief but comprehensive review of the mineral treasures of the British Empire. It is worthy of notice that the following important minerals ar...

A unique contribution of the British to urban landscape India was creation hill- stations. number hill-resorts were established at selected spots for specific purpose British. Initially chosen as sanatorium and resting centres away from tropical Indian plains, hill stations eventually turned out be important administrative seat colonial masters, thus giving rise a new set centres.

Long ridiculed for their racial hybridity, India’s Anglo-Indians—a mixed race people—were called ‘Dingos’ and instructed rudely to “Go to Australia” after India won her Independence from the British in 1947. Although their first port of escape from India was Great Britain, thousands of Anglo-Indians left the Indian subcontinent (India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka) in the second wave of migration, i....

The term ‘SC’ appeared for the first time in Government of India Act of 1935(1). In April 1936, British government issued the Government of India Scheduled Caste order 1936, specifying certain castes, races and tribes as scheduled castes in the then provinces of Assam, Bengal, Bihar and Bombay, Central provinces and Berrar, Madras, Orissa, Punjab and United Province. Prior to these, they are kn...