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... taken the responsibility of initiating and leading it and that many women had signed the pledge should have opened the eyes of the Government as to the intensity of the feeling behind it . Besides this threat of passive resistance the ...
... taken the responsibility of initiating and leading it and that many women had signed the pledge should have opened the eyes of the Government as to the intensity of the feeling behind it . Besides this threat of passive resistance the ...
Page xv
... taken under the Defence Act against certain individuals who were openly endeavoring to arouse public feeling against the Government . " It was this action , viz . , the sum- 1 This Hindu happened to be the leader of a section of the ...
... taken under the Defence Act against certain individuals who were openly endeavoring to arouse public feeling against the Government . " It was this action , viz . , the sum- 1 This Hindu happened to be the leader of a section of the ...
Page xxi
... taken away from sun - dried bureaucrats of the type of Sir Michael O'Dwyer and Sir Reginald Craddock . The bloodshed in the Punjab , which outdid all other Provinces in sending help during the war both in men and money , pointed to the ...
... taken away from sun - dried bureaucrats of the type of Sir Michael O'Dwyer and Sir Reginald Craddock . The bloodshed in the Punjab , which outdid all other Provinces in sending help during the war both in men and money , pointed to the ...
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... taken place . " He held that the salary of the Indian Secretary of State should be paid from the British Treasury , and then there would be real debates : " How can you defend the fact that the Secretaries of State for India alone of ...
... taken place . " He held that the salary of the Indian Secretary of State should be paid from the British Treasury , and then there would be real debates : " How can you defend the fact that the Secretaries of State for India alone of ...
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... taken as soon as possible , and that it is of the highest importance as a preliminary to considering what these steps should be that there should be a free and informal exchange of opinion between those in authority at home and in India ...
... taken as soon as possible , and that it is of the highest importance as a preliminary to considering what these steps should be that there should be a free and informal exchange of opinion between those in authority at home and in India ...
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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.