Correspondents include: Sir Michael O'Dwyer [former Lieutenant-Governor of Punjab, India] on the recruitment difficulties of the Indian Civil Service; Sir Louis Stuart, Honorary Secretary, Indian Empire Society; Sir John Anderson [later 1st Lord Waverley], Governor of Bengal [parts of Bangladesh and India], introducing Nalini Ranjan Sarker, member of the Indian Congress, and Sir Srinivasa Sarma, Editor of the Whip and member of the Indian Legislative Assembly (2); H A Gwynne [Editor of the Morning Post] on the Maharaja of Patiala and the succession of the Maharaja of Bijawar (3); "Hopie" [2nd Lord Linlithgow, earlier Lord Hopetoun],Viceroy and Governor-General of India, on the succession of Bijawar and the beginning of his term as Viceroy; 19th Lord Sempill on the use of tear gas by Indian police; Sir Srinivasa Sarma; Herbert Williams [Director, Empire Industries Association].Other subjects include: the Muslim League; the conquest of Abyssinia [later Ethiopia] and WSC's hope for improved future relations with Italy.Also includes: press cutting from the Times of a letter by Sir Michael O'Dwyer on Indian Civil Service recruitment; draft of the new constitution and rules of the Imperial Defence League [later the Empire and India Defence League]; note on the report of the Delimitation Committee of the Indian Empire Society, on the delimitation of Indian constituencies; monthly bulletins of the Empire and India Defence League for March and June; notes by Sir Arthur McWatters on the report by Sir Otto Niemeyer on [the Financial Mission to India, see also CHAR 2/275]; report by D Madhava Rao, Special Correspondent of the Morning Post, on political feeling in India on the new constitution, and plans to wreck the All India Federation; press cutting from the Manchester Evening Chronicle on competition against the Lancashire cotton trade from India; extract from the Hindustan Times on the use of tear gas in riots; extract from the Times with a statement by Sir Srinivasa Sarma on the Indian political outlook; notes and copies of correspondence by WSC and Violet Pearman, [secretary to WSC].