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The Indian Constitution. an Introductory Study

1913

The results of the Mahratta wars of the Pindari and the Afghan wars and of the Sikh and Burmese wars are of importance to the student of the Constitution only for the purpose of understanding how the Company and the Crown adjusted the mechanism of adminitration to the growing needs of the enormous increase in the territories which thereby came under their sway. [...] The growth of legislative administrative and judicial authority in the few settlements of the Company in India is closely affeced by the amount of interest which successive Stuart Kings could be induced to take in the affairs of the Company and it was more the prerogative of the King combined with the eterprise of the merchants than the interest of the British Nation22 THE INDIAN CONSTITU [...] The rapid acquisition of territories on behalf of the Copany in India in the subsequent period and the equally rapid acquisition of enormous wealth by all manner of means by the servants of the Company combined with the extremely unsatifactory state of the affairs of the Company itself in London and of the government of the people in its territories in the East attracted pointed Parliamenta [...] The interpretation put upon it at the time and what was probably the intention of Parliment was the Government of India was to have the right of initiative; the Council in London the right of revision and the Secretary of State subject to the ultimate judgment of the House of Commons the right of veto. [...] George Yule pointed out in the speech quoted in the Note to the last Chapter that the Government of India was to have the right of initiative the Council in London the right of revision pnq the Secretary of Stabe the right of veto subject to the ultimate judgment of the House of Commons.
government politics public policy
Pages
498
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.142254
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-xiii A. Iyengar view
Chapter I. British Sovereignty over India
1-23 unknown view
Chapter II. India and Parliamentary Sovereignty
24-35 unknown view
Chapter III. The Crown and the India Office
36-44 unknown view
Chapter IV. The Imperial Government
45-78 unknown view
Chapter V. Provincial Governments
79-97 unknown view
Chapter VI. District Administration
98-113 unknown view
Chapter VII. Local Government
114-131 unknown view
Chapter VIII. The Indian Legislatures—General Features
132-142 unknown view
Chapter IX. The Indian Legislatures—their Constitution
143-164 unknown view
Chapter X. The Indian Legislatures—their Legislative Functions
165-180 unknown view
Chapter XI. The Legislatures and the Executive
181-192 unknown view
Chapter XII. The Courts and the Constitution
193-200 unknown view
Chapter XIII. Indian Finance
201-208 unknown view
Chapter XIV. Budgets and Budgetary Rules
209-220 unknown view
Chapter XV. The Native States
221-243 unknown view
Chapter XVI. Conclusion
244-255 unknown view
Appendix
i-ccxxiv unknown view
Index
i-vi unknown view