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Indian Constitutional Reforms. Government of India’s Despatch of March 5th 1919 and Connected Papers. First Despatch on Indian Constitutional Reforms

1919

They welcomed its proposals as a real and substantial step towards the progressive realistion of responsible government in the provinces and the modifications which they urged were with the exception of those affecting the Government of India concerned with the details rather than the essentials of the scheme. [...] Both parties agree in urging that changes giving sonic measure of popular control should be introduced into the Government of India from the outset : and that the Government of India acting under the control of the legislature should enjoy the same power of regulating the fiscal policy of this country as the governments of the self-governing Dominions. [...] The advance from this state of affairs to real responsible government would proceed by means of the gradual witdrawal of the Governor in Council from interference from the passing of ordinances from the issuing of orders over ministers' 'heads from altering the financial or legislative proceedings of the legislature and so Unified government. [...] In the matter of supply the majority minute proposes that the legislature should vote the budget but that the Governor in Council should have power to restore the original provi►ion in circumstances covered by the terms of section 5 o of the Government of India. [...] In the absence of any differentiation of subjects and of any. special facilities for obtaining supply for those subjects which are the special care of the official part of the executive we should not be prepared to rely upon the certificate power as the sole effective instrument of government.
government politics public policy
Pages
381
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.145486
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-iii unknown view
Frontmatter
i-1 unknown view
Preliminary
1-6 unknown view
Types of Government
6-8 unknown view
Unified Government
8-13 unknown view
Dualised Government
13-16 unknown view
The Provincial Governments
16-28 unknown view
Provincial Finance
28-29 unknown view
Relaxation of External Control
29-35 unknown view
Provision of Supply
35-44 unknown view
Treasury Control
44-47 unknown view
Control by Legislature
47-47 unknown view
The Audit
47-49 unknown view
Legislative Arrangements
49-57 unknown view
The Governor in Council
57-58 unknown view
The Governor and Ministers
58-62 unknown view
Joint Working of the Two Parts of Government
62-66 unknown view
Future Changes
66-67 unknown view
The Government of India
67-73 unknown view
The Secretary of State
74-77 unknown view
Minute by His Excellency the Viceroy Dated March 5 1919
78-82 Chelmsford view
Minute of Dissent by Sir C. Sankaran Nair Dated March 5 1919
83-358 unknown view