SEVEN LECTURES
ON THE
UNITED KINGDOM
FOR USE IN
INDIA.
Reissued for use in the United Kingdom.
BY
H. J. MACKINDER,
Lately Director of the London School of Economics and Political
Science: Author of “Britain and the British Seas.”
With Lantern Illustrations.
ONE SHILLING NET.
PUBLISHED FOR THE VISUAL INSTRUCTION COMMITTEE
OF THE COLONIAL OFFICE,
BY
WATERLOW & SONS LIMITED, PRINTERS, LONDON WALL.
1909.
The Slides to accompany these Lectures are sold onbehalf of the Committee by Messrs. Newton & Co., of3, Fleet Street, London, E.C., from whom the booksof lectures can also be obtained. The complete set of377 Slides, many of them coloured, may be had for£35. 0s. 0d. The Slides to accompany the severalLectures will be sold at the following prices: FirstLecture, £6. 0s. 0d.; Second Lecture, £5. 15s. 0d.;Third Lecture, £4. 15s. 0d.; Fourth Lecture, £2. 15s. 0d.;Fifth Lecture, £10. 15s. 0d.; Sixth Lecture, £3. 0s. 0d.;Seventh Lecture, £4. 0s. 0d. Single Slides will not besold.
Many of the slides in this series are copyright.
ENTERED AT STATIONERS’ HALL.
APPOINTED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR
THE COLONIES.
The Right Honourable The Earl of Meath, K.P., Chairman.
The Right Honourable Sir Cecil Clementi Smith, G.C.M.G.
Sir Philip Hutchins, K.C.S.I., late Member of the Council of theSecretary of State for India.
Sir Charles Lucas, K.C.M.G., C.B., of the Colonial Office.
Sir Charles Holroyd, Director of the National Gallery.
H. F. Heath, Ph.D., Director of Special Enquiries at the Board ofEducation.
H. J. Mackinder, M.A., late Director of the London School ofEconomics and Political Science.
R. D. Roberts, D.Sc., Secretary of the Gilchrist Educational Trust.
Professor Michael E. Sadler, LL.D., Professor of the Historyand Administration of Education in the University of Manchester.
John Struthers, C.B., LL.D., Secretary to the Scotch EducationDepartment.
PREFACE.
THE component parts of the British Empire are soremote and so different from one another, thatit is evident that the Empire can only be