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Proceedings of the Legislative Council of the United Provinces Saturday 22nd February 1936 Official Report

1936

It was he who commissioned his uncle the Duke of Connaught publicly to express regret in the speech he made in Delhi for the wrongs done during the martial law regime in the Punjab the first and until now the last intance where such an expression of regret was made by such a personage with regard to a grievance felt by the people against the Government. [...] On the same occasion in the Message which he addressed to the people of India His Majesty said that he had known that he knew that for years the aspiration of patriotic Indians had been for Swaraj and that he hoped that the foundation was being laid of the development of the country to a status equal to that of his other dominions. [...] The Hon’ble the President The Chair associates itself wholeheartedly with the tributes that have been paid on behalf of the various groups in this House to His late Majesty to the grief that we all feel at his passing away to the sympathy that is felt throughout the Empire and throughout the world for His Majesty King Edward VIII and for the Gracious Queen Mother at the demise of His Late Majesty [...] Gliintamani there was a slump in Crowns and a number of the proudest monarchies were found crumbling away the Throne of England and the Royal persons embedded themselves deeper in the affections of the people of not only Britain but of the whole British Empire. [...] MOTIONS OF CONDOLENCE ON THE DEATH OF HIS LATE MAJESTY 11 KING GEORGE V EMPEROR OF INDIA AND CONGRATULATIONS ON THE ACCESSION OF HIS MAJESTY KING EDWARD VIII EMPEROR OF INDIA Comning as the demise did soon after the celebration of the Silver Jubilee of his reign it has cast a gloom over the whole of India and the whole Empire and it is no doubt as has been remarked by the Hon’ble the Finance
government politics public policy
Pages
12
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100003
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Frontmatter
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Legislative Council United Provinces of Agra and Oudh
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