EXPANSION IN INDIA

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19498, 5 June 1925, Page 7

EXPANSION IN INDIA

COLONISATION SCHEMES. TWO NEW MOVEMENTS. CALCUTTA, May 18. Two new colonisation schemes are r« ported in India. A number of -Parseea, under Sir H. C. Dinshaw, a leading merchant, are proceeding to Basra, with a view to examining the prospects in Persia) for colonisation, and to inspect generally, the conditions of Zoroastrianism. Calcutta Parsecs, while most sympathetic with any manifestation of the growing desire of Indian Parsees to understand the national movement in, their homeland, are sceptical as to the feasibility of Indian; Parsecs undertaking a colonisation motte-i ment on a large scale. The other colonisation venture •. is by Anglo-Indians, under an ex-officer of .this Indian Army, to the Andaman Islands. A previous Anglo-Indian venture to tba Andamans was unsuccessful, because the men were of the wrong type. ■■■■■-' The present project is considered ■ to have a better chance of success, but the opinion is expressed that it is doUbtfoi whether a town-bred community, hampered by dissensions and economically ground between Europeans - and Anglo Indians, will ever succeed in such ai hazardous pioneer experiment.