Papers Relating to the Application of the Principle of Dyarchy to the Government of India: To which are Appended the Report of the Joint Select Committee and the Government of India Act, 1919

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Clarendon Press, 1920 - Constitutional law - 606 pages

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Contents

The legislature 6 Relations to Indian Government 6Demand
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executive 12in legislature 13 Direct election 14 Increase of
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Transferred powers 21 Education and local government 22 Sanita
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of revenue 26 New sources 28 Division of officials 29 Accounts
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Dangers of present system 36 Advantages of dyarchy 36 Its progres
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Extension of movement to Canada 41Indian question discussed with
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Visit to India advised 49 Arrival in India 49 Rearrangement
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Treatment of this subject in the problem of the Commonwealth 77
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Misrepresentation in Indian reviews 78Respect for Indian suscepti
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British affairs 85 Indias choice between the two 85 Representation
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LETTER TO THE HON BABU BHUPENDRA NATH
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Reasons for defining goal 102 Federalized countries to be imitated
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Otherwise it will block progress of electoral govern
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Need for vertical as well as horizontal divisions 108 Each province must
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Appended criticisms 124 Prefatory note
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training should begin in village and other local bodies 133 Conclusions
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tions Indianization of services Commissions for Indians 140 Imperial
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Imperial civil service suggested 145 Definition of sphere of central
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Elementary education recommended for transfer 154Importance
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Must be protected by sufficient representation 161 Difficulty of pro
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recanted 166Immediate reform of Indian legislature desired
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Views of Malcolm and Munro 170 Intemperance of British opinion after
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India 176Low political moral Inefficiency Shortcomings of zamin
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Not acceptable to Indian opinion 184 Administrative structure
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chambers 192The ballot
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From a teacher 195 Imperial reform disapproved 195
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IV
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Supervisory functions 205Relations of services to departments
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Provincial settlements 209 Fixed assignments 211 How estimates
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Parganas villages and relative officials 219 District
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revenues The octroi 232Their functions 233 Note by an officer
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Secondary vernacular schools 304 Curricula 304 Examinations
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Training of teachers 312 Inspectors 313 Their relations to district
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APPENDIX Note on HindiUrdu question
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division into Provincial States 330 Reform should begin in the provinces
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Assemblies and their functions 337 Creation
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Composition of central legislature 344 Standing civil service commission
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suggested 350Need for dispatch 350Importance of creating
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by the Congress and League 359Answer of Imperial Government
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cannot be trained by schoolteaching 368 Education without responsi
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Meaning of control discussed 374 Positive as well as negative control
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proposal to apply MintoMorley principle to the district officer 392
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Imperialization of Indian frontier 399 Simplifying effect
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Contrast U S A and British Dominions 404 Danger of oversized
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Dyarchy involves additional taxation which representa
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local and political government distinguished 416 The London County
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superiority of autocratic decisions really superficial 423 Basic reasons
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In the end character produces efficiency 425Though efficiency
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tion to dyarchy by Nationalists 432 By Europeans 433
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desired by landholders 443 Reasons against conceding this demand
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powers in England by local legislation 451 This procedure and
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Corelation of provincial and state governments 458
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Suspensory power favourable to progress 464Transferred powers to
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Methods adopted 469 Origin of joint address 469 Reason for English
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Its effect on our position at the Peace Conference 476 Pledges as
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functions 482Motive governing evidence 483 Pronouncement
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The Joint Address 491 The question of areas used as basis of attack
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to their constituents only criticized 499 Confusion of ideas underlying
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Safeguards to suspensory power 515 Governors should
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must be commensurate to duties 518 Responsibility of executive
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legislate 527 Cornwall Lewis on the danger of mock parliaments 529
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transferred subjects and elect its own speaker 533 President of legis
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Direct election advised 545 Council of state not even popular
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Page 573 - The policy of His Majesty's Government, with which the Government of India are in complete accord, is that of the increasing association of Indians in every branch of the administration and the gradual development of self-governing institutions with a view to the progressive realisation of responsible government in India as an integral part of the British Empire.
Page 556 - Whereas it is the declared policy of Parliament to provide for the increasing association of Indians in every branch of Indian administration, and for the gradual development of self-governing institutions, with a view to the progressive realisation of responsible government in British India as an integral part of the Empire...
Page 556 - The British Government and the Government of India, on whom the responsibility lies for the welfare and advancement of the Indian peoples, must be judges of the time and measure of each advance, and they must be guided by the co-operation received from those upon whom new opportunities of service will thus be conferred and by the extent to which it is found that confidence can be'' reposed in their sense of responsibility.
Page 575 - ... the United Provinces, the Punjab, Bihar and Orissa, the Central Provinces, and Assam, shall each be governed, in relation to reserved...
Page 577 - ... be treated as being the order or the act of the government of the province. The governor may also make rules and orders for regulating the relations between his executive council and his ministers for the purpose of the transaction of the business of the local government...
Page 575 - Act, shall be made without the concurrence of a majority of votes at a meeting of the Council of India : Provided that a grant or appropriation made in accordance with provisions or restrictions prescribed by the Secretary of State in Council with the concurrence of a majority of votes at a meeting of the Council shall be deemed to be made with the concurrence of a majority of such votes.
Page 554 - Its critics forget that the announcement spoke of a substantial step in the direction of the gradual development of self-governing institutions with a view to the progressive realisation of responsible government and not of the partial introduction of responsible government ; and it is this distinction which justifies the method by which the Bill imposes responsibility, both on Ministers to the legislative council and on the members of the legislative council to their constituents, for the result*...
Page 586 - He may be removed from office by a vote of the senate, or he may resign his office by writing under his hand addressed to the governor-general.
Page 172 - There is one great question to which we should look in all our arrangements; What is to be their final result on the character of the people ? Is it to be raised, or is it to be lowered ? Are we to be satisfied with merely securing our power and protecting...
Page 585 - Subject to the provisions of Articles 108 and 109, a Bill shall not be deemed to have been passed by the Houses of Parliament unless it has been agreed to by both Houses, either without amendment or with such amendments only as are agreed to by both Houses.

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