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... subject nor to burden this book with quotations from eminent thinkers and writers . In our judgment , the best definition of democracy so far has been furnished by Abraham Lincoln , viz . , " the government of the people , by the people ...
... subject nor to burden this book with quotations from eminent thinkers and writers . In our judgment , the best definition of democracy so far has been furnished by Abraham Lincoln , viz . , " the government of the people , by the people ...
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... subjects or indeed as slaves . During the most flourishing period of their history , the citizens of all Italian republics did not amount to 20,000 , and these privileged classes held as many million in subjection . The citizens of ...
... subjects or indeed as slaves . During the most flourishing period of their history , the citizens of all Italian republics did not amount to 20,000 , and these privileged classes held as many million in subjection . The citizens of ...
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... subjects . Laws were not made by kings . " Legis- lation was not among the powers entrusted to a king , ” says Mr. Banerjea . " There is no reference in early Vedic literature to the exercise of legislative authority by the king ...
... subjects . Laws were not made by kings . " Legis- lation was not among the powers entrusted to a king , ” says Mr. Banerjea . " There is no reference in early Vedic literature to the exercise of legislative authority by the king ...
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... subject , he had just discovered , in village after village , a distinctly effective if somewhat shadowy , local organization , in one or other form of panchayat , which was , in fact , now and then giving decisions on matters of ...
... subject , he had just discovered , in village after village , a distinctly effective if somewhat shadowy , local organization , in one or other form of panchayat , which was , in fact , now and then giving decisions on matters of ...
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... subject . " Later on in the same paragraph Mr. Webb remarks that , even where caste exists it has , in fact , permitted a great deal of common life , and that it is compatible with active village councils . Besides the evidence ...
... subject . " Later on in the same paragraph Mr. Webb remarks that , even where caste exists it has , in fact , permitted a great deal of common life , and that it is compatible with active village councils . Besides the evidence ...
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Page 8 - 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 34 - Over this congeries of States would preside a central Government, increasingly representative of and responsible to the people of all of them; dealing with matters, both internal and external, of common interest to the whole of India; acting as arbiter in inter-state relations, and representing the interests of all India on equal terms with the self-governing units of the British Empire.
Page 8 - 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, and they must be guided by the cooperation 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 122 - Indian legislation, we desire to attract to it the services of the best men available in the country. We desire that the Council of State should develop something of the experience and dignity of a body of Elder Statesmen...
Page x - No. 2 of 1919 are unjust, subversive of the principles of liberty and justice and destructive of the elementary rights of individuals on which the safety of the community as a whole and the State itself is based, we solemnly affirm that in the...
Page 144 - But whatever economic fallacy underlies his reasoning, these are his firm beliefs ; and though "he may be willing to concede the possibility that he is wrong, he will not readily concede that it is our business to decide the matter for him. He believes that as long as we continue to decide for him we shall decide in the interests of England and not according to his wishes ; and he points to the debate in the House of Commons on the differentiation of the cotton excise in support of his contention....
Page 127 - ... (c) that every Indian subject shall be entitled to bear arms, subject to the purchase of a licence, as in Great Britain, and that...
Page 102 - The States are guaranteed security from without : the Paramount Power acts for them in relation to foreign powers and other States, and it intervenes when the internal peace of their territories is seriously threatened. On the other hand the states...
Page 37 - The provinces are the domain in which the earlier steps towards the progressive realization of responsible government should be taken. Some measure of responsibility should be given at once, and our aim is to give complete responsibility as soon as conditions permit. This involves at once giving the provinces the largest measure of independence, legislative, administrative, and...
Page 138 - The political domination of one country by another attracts far more attention than the more formidable, though unfelt, domination which the capital, enterprise, and skill of one country exercise over the trade and manufactures of another. This latter domination has an insidious influence which paralyses the springs of all the varied activities which together make up the life of a nation.