The Indian Review. A Monthly Journal

Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya avers that “so far as the proposals go they constitute a large and liberal measure of reform which we should be grateful for.” Among the signtories of the now famous Memorandum of the Nineteen besides some of the ex-Presidents of the Congress and of the Moslem League there Are a number of members of the Imperial Legislative Council and these also approve of the sche [...] The claim advanced in the Report that the real guardians of the masses of India are the bureaucracy and not the natural leaders of the people is responsible for not a little of the unfavourable criticism to which the Report has been subjected. [...] "We would ask the British bureaucrat who is eternally sceptical about the capacity of Indians to successfully carry on the work of administration to look for a while at the Province of Mysore where the Ruler the Dewan the Councillors the heads of departments and the Commissioners of Districts are all Indians and the State is as progressive as any under modern administration." THE MONTAGU CHEL [...] As a concession we might agree that in the Provinces a fixed sum calculated on the average expenditure of five years before the War on police law and justice should be at the disposal of the Executive and outside the control of the Legislature for the life time of the first Legislative Council and that these should be reserved to the Executive. [...] The procedure laid down in the scheme reduces the Assembly as a whole and the representatives of the people and the Council of State to the postion of irresponsible critics as complained in regard to the Morley-Minto reforms.