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The Calcutta Review June 1951

1951

between government by the agents of Parliament and government by the representatives of the people of India." ' Accordingly a Section' was inserted in the Act providing for the appointment of a Statutory Commission at the end of ten years from the passing of thAct to examine the working of the constitution and to make recommendatiOns abont the feasibility and desirability of further extending [...] in fiat contrdiction of his letter of the 10th December 1925 said that the reason for anticipating the date of the Commission was the change in the tone and temper in India in the direction of improved relationship with the British Government.' Earl Winterton Under-Secretary of State for India in justification of the measure in the House of Commons said that though it proposed to effect a [...] 164-65."1951] CONSERVATIVES AND THE SIMON COMMISSION 157 should prejudge the outcome of the Conference from the presence of Sir John Simon Chairman of that Commission and abstain from attending the Conference the Labour Government in the face of opposition from Conservatives and Liberals excluded him from the Conference.' In the House of Commons Mr. [...] the avoidance of any discussion of the Commission report in Parliament the side-tracking of the report by the Round Table Conference and the deliberate exclusion of the members of the Commission from the Round Table Conference were a recognition of the mole fides of the Commission and an aditission of the folly of Parliament in acquiescing in the Conservative plan of ignoring Indian public opinio [...] But though the Labour Government in due deference to Indian sentiment pushed the report into the bacground the National Government under the leadership of the Consevatives retrieved it and gave it the dignity of an authoritative version of Indian conditions and constitutional needs and ultimately built up the whole superstructure of the New Indian Constitution of 1935 on the basis of the r
history
Pages
70
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120137
Segment Pages Author Actions
Conservatives and the Simon Commission
143-157 Nikhil Ray view
Andre Paul Guillaume Gide in His “L’immoraliste”
158-170 Rajkumar Mukerji view
A Pilgrim of Eternity
171-174 Krishnadas Sarkar view
Spiritual Talks of Rumi
175-182 Harendrachandra Paul view
The Library of the Vernacular Literature Committee
183-190 Priyaranjan Sen view
Round the World
191-193 unknown view
Reviews and Notices of Books
194-196 unknown view
Ourselvs
197-197 unknown view
Official Notifications University of Calcutta
198-212 unknown view

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