INDIAN FRONTIER AREA
ADDRESS TO VICTORIA LEAGUE
For the last 100 years or so. there had-always been a feeling in the northwest India that Russia was probing towards India, said Mr A. F. Perrott, a former .inspector-general of police in the North-West Frontier Province, in a talk yesterday to members of the Victoria League. Mr .Perrott. after describing the British rule in India as benevolent, outlined social conditions in the northwest in an effort, he said, to clear up some misunderstanding of “British imperialism” in India. 7716 frontier, he said, formed a barrier between the fierce hill tribes and' the people of India proper. These hill tribes, which had never been conquered, continually raided and 1 looted over the border, and the frontier could obviously not be a peaceful area. Another element which made for unrest was the migration of criminals and outlaws from India oyer the border, added Mr Perrott
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26365, 8 March 1951, Page 3
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