Joint Committee on Indian Constitutional Reform [Session 1933-34]. Volume I (Part I.) Report

Questions asked by the Marquess of Salisbury on the position of the States in the Federal Finance Scheme of the White Paper and replies thereto by the Secretary of State for India............ 361 V. Memorandum by the Secretary of State for India on the federal Legislature.......... 367 VI. [...] II 490 0 0 The cost of repayment of the expenses of the Delegates from Burma was.... 1 178 0 0 The cost of printing draft reports and mashalled list of amendments was.... 425 0 0 The cost of the shorthand notes of the Dicussions was.......... 246 17 7 The cost of duplicating Confidential Memoanda Circulars etc. [...] Page 193 194 Difficulty of the subject.......... Composition of Council of State and Federal House 107 of Assembly proposed in White Paper...... 108 195 Method of election to Council of State proposed in the White Paper............ 108 196 Method of election to the House of Assembly proposed in the White Paper........ 108 197 The precedent of other Federations 109 198 Direct or i [...] Yet notwithstanding the measure of devolution on the Provincial authorities which was the outcome of the Act of 1919 the Government of India is and remains in essence a unitary and centralised Government with the GovernoGeneral in Council as the keystone of the whole constitutional 10 edifice ; and it is through the Governor-General in Council that the Secretary of State and ultimately Parlia [...] " The 25 practical difficulty in the way of achieving the objective of dyarchy and of obtaining a clear demarcation of responsibility arises not so much in the inner counsels of government as in the eyes of the Legislature the electorate and the public.