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The Governance of India - As it is and as it may be (A Handbook of Progressive Politics)

1917

In its way this breaking down of the exclusiveness of the political caste system is as fraught with the future good of India as was the mightier innovation of Buddha in the sphere of the life of the spirit when he broke down the exclusive+ ness of the Brahman and put the non-Brahman on a footing of spiritual equality with him. [...] That this question of the elective representation of the British commercial interests was ever present in the mind of the British Cabinet is made very clear in the Earl of Derby's speech when introducing the Third Government of India Bill after the First Bill that of Viscount Palmerston and the Second Bill that of the Earl of Ellenborough had come to grief. [...] The institution had scarcely taken place with the addition of the oath added in the Explanatory Act passed in 1786 before this committee appointed for the purpose of issuing the secret instructions of the Board of Control relating to matters of war and peace are directed to manage as a matter of secrecy the settlement of an old debt due from the Nabob of Arcot to the Company. [...] This was no doubt the object aimed at in the provision of the Act of 1858 that no charge should be placed upon the revenues of India without the sanction of the majority of the Council.' But this check is practically rendered nugatory by the power given to the Secretary of State to deal with business alone in the Secret Department. [...] In the days of the East India Company the Chairman and the Deputy Chairman of the Court of Directors were associated with the President of the Board of Control on this Committee ; but now the Secret Deparment of the India Office is removed entirely from the view of the whole Council.
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Pages
386
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.143805
Segment Pages Author Actions
Preface
i-vii Govinda Das view
Chapter I The India Office
1-ii Govinda Das view
Chapter II The Imperial Government
45-106 Govinda Das view
Chapter III. The Indian States
107-194 Govinda Das view
Chapter IV. Provincial Governments
195-281 Govinda Das view
Chapter V. The Legislative Councils
282-357 Govinda Das view
Appendix
358-360 Govinda Das view
Index
i-viii Govinda Das view
Backmatter
i-ix Govinda Das view

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