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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Lionel Curtis
Clarendon Press, 1920 - Constitutional law - 606 pages

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executive 12in legislature 13 Direct election 14 Increase
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Transferred powers 21 Education and local government 22 Sanita
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and audit
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Dangers of present system 36 Advantages of dyarchy 36Its progres
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Extension of movement to Canada 41 Indian question discussed with
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Visit to India advised 49 Arrival in India 49 Rearrangement
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77Treatment of this subject in the problem of the Commonwealth 77
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Misrepresentation in Indian reviews 78 Respect 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 102Federalized 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 140Imperial
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Imperial civil service suggested 145 Definition of sphere of central
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Elementary education recommended for transfer 154 Importance
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Must be protected by sufficient representation 161Difficulty of pro
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recanted 166Immediate reform of Indian legislature desired 167
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Views of Malcolm and Munro 170Intemperance of British opinion after
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native proposals Indianization of services Departmental boards 179
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Not acceptable to Indian opinion 184 Administrative structure
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The ballot
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From a teacher 195 Imperial reform disapproved 195
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Supervisory functions 205 Relations 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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LAND REVENUE 239290
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Its origin according to Manu 240 Reforms of Akbar 242Question
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quacy of Bengal revenues 256Orders to extend permanent settlement
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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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Electorates 337 Assemblies and their functions 337Creation
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Composition of central legislature 344 Standing civil service commission
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Need for dispatch 350 Importance of creating
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by the Congress and League 359 Answer 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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executive and legislature 380 How effected in England 380
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In the Transvaal 383India need not repeat mistakes made in these
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Choice between Europe and America as models for India 395 Dominion
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Övercentralization in United Kingdom France and Italy 402 Origin
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The case of Orissa 407 Sind Marathas Canarese Tamil and Telugu
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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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448 Chief Commissioners duties in sphere of reserved powers 448
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Government attitude to social reform criticized 454 Enabling legislation
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462Suspensory power 463 Periodic commissions of inquiry
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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 483Pronouncement
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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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515 Safeguards to suspensory power 515 Governors should
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must be commensurate to duties 518 Responsibility of executive
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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 selfgoverning institutions, with a view to the progressive realisation of responsible government in British India as an integral part of the empire...
Page 473 - 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 593 - Any rules relating to transferred subjects made under this section shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament as soon as may be after they are made...
Page 362 - I would add that progress in this policy can only be achieved by successive stages. 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...
Page 596 - Act, and if an address is presented to His Majesty by either House of Parliament within the next subsequent twenty-one days on which that House has sat...
Page 326 - 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 realization of responsible government in India as an integral part of the British Empire. They have decided that substantial steps in this direction should be taken as soon as possible...
Page 596 - State containing such directions as aforesaid shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament as soon as may be after they are made. 13. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires —
Page 575 - The presidencies of Fort William in Bengal, Fort St. George, and Bombay, and the provinces known as the United Provinces, the Punjab, Bihar and Orissa, the Central Provinces, and Assam, shall each be governed, in relation to reserved subjects, by a governor in council, and in relation to transferred subjects (save as otherwise provided by this Act) by the governor acting with ministers appointed under this Act.
Page 581 - No proposal for the appropriation of any revenue or moneys for any purpose shall be made except on the recommendation of the Governor-General.

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