Indian Year Book, Volume 16Sir Stanley Reed Bennett, Coleman., 1929 - India Issues for 1919-47 include Who's who in India; 1948, Who's who in India and Pakistan. |
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Page 183 - We desire no extension of our present territorial possessions: and while we will permit no aggression upon our dominions or our rights to be attempted with impunity, we shall sanction no encroachment on those of others. We shall respect the rights, dignity, and honour of native princes as our own...
Page 539 - Union" means any combination, whether temporary or permanent, formed primarily for the purpose of regulating the relations between workmen and employers or between workmen and workmen, or between employers and employers, or for imposing restrictive conditions on the conduct of any trade or i>u in> ->. and includes any federation of two or more Trade Unions.
Page 88 - House has sat ; and upon the signification of such assent by His Majesty in Council, and the notification thereof by the Governor-General, the Act shall have the same force and effect as an Act passed by the Indian legislature and duly assented to : Provided that, where in the opinion of the Governor-General a state of emergency exists which justifies such action...
Page 76 - The estimated annual expenditure and revenue of the province shall be laid in the form of a statement before the council in each year, and the proposals of the local government for the appropriation of provincial revenues and other moneys in any year shall be submitted to the vote of the council in the form of demands for grants.
Page 87 - Government shall have power, in relation to any such demand, to act as if it had been assented to, notwithstanding the withholding of such assent...
Page 539 - trade dispute" means any dispute between employers and workmen or between workmen and workmen, or between employers and employers which is connected with the employment or nonemployment, or the terms of employment or the conditions of labour, of any person...
Page 240 - In the third place — -I say it without hesitation — we should regard the establishment of a naval base, or of a fortified port, in the Persian Gulf by any other Power as a very grave menace to British interests, and we should certainly resist it with all the means at our disposal.
Page 580 - Majesty exercised through the Governor-General of India, or through any governor or other officer subordinate to the Governor-General of India.
Page 184 - Government has assumed a certain degree of responsibility for the general soundness of their administration and could not consent to incur the reproach of being an indirect instrument of misrule. There are also certain matters in which it is necessary for the Government of India to safeguard the interests of the community as a whole, as well as those of the paramount power, such as railways, telegraphs and other services of an Imperial character. But the relationship of the Supreme Government to...
Page 80 - ... into the working of the system of government, the growth of education. and the development of representative institutions in British India, and matters connected therewith, 'and the commission shall report as to whether and to what extent it is desirable to establish the principle of responsible government, or to extend, modify, or restrict the degree of responsible government then existing therein, including the question whether the establishment of second chambers of the local legislatures...