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Constitutional Proposals of the Sapru Committee

1945

But he could not get over the fact that the source of the Secretary of State for India's proposals to Parliament was not so much the report drawn up by the Secretary of State and the Viceroy as the Declaration which the Secretary of State had been authorised to make on behalf of the Government. [...] Having to speak in support of the Government's Bill in the House of Lords when it came there for second reading Lord Curzon confined himself in the main to a defence of the procedure adopted by the Goverment and to a discussion of the alterations introduced into the framwork of the Bill by the Joint Committee. [...] It framed a constitution providing that India should have the same constitutional status in the comity of nations known as the British Empire as the Dominion of Canada the Commonwealth of Australia the Dominion of New Zealand the Union of South Africa and the Irish Free State with a Parliament having powers to make iaws for the peace order and good government of India and an excutive respon [...] He returned to India at the end of October 1929 and on the 31st of October hr made the following announcement In view of the doubts which have been expressed both it: Great Britain and in India regarding the interpretation to be placed on the intention of the British Government in enacting the Statute of 1919 I am authorised on behalf of His Majesty';. [...] (2) In pursuance of the statement made by the Prime Minister in his announcement of January 19 1931 steps will be taken for the participation of the representatives of the Congress in the further discussions that are to take place on the scheme of constitutional reform.
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Pages
457
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.146093
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-i Tej Sapru, M.R. Jayakar, N. Ayyangar, Jagadish Prasad view
Frontmatter
i-iv Tej Sapru, M.R. Jayakar, N. Ayyangar, Jagadish Prasad view
Chapter I. Preliminary
1-9 Tej Sapru, M.R. Jayakar, N. Ayyangar, Jagadish Prasad view
Chapter II. Historical Survey (1917-I942)
10-84 Tej Sapru, M.R. Jayakar, N. Ayyangar, Jagadish Prasad view
Chapter III. Hindu-Muslim Relations
85-125 Tej Sapru, M.R. Jayakar, N. Ayyangar, Jagadish Prasad view
Chapter IV. Pakistan or Partition of India
126-iii Tej Sapru, M.R. Jayakar, N. Ayyangar, Jagadish Prasad view
Chapter V. The Legislature the Executive and the Judiciary
163-197 Tej Sapru, M.R. Jayakar, N. Ayyangar, Jagadish Prasad view
Chapter VI. Indian States — The Head of the State
198-214 Tej Sapru, M.R. Jayakar, N. Ayyangar, Jagadish Prasad view
Chapter VII. Minorities and Fundamental Rights
215-263 Tej Sapru, M.R. Jayakar, N. Ayyangar, Jagadish Prasad view
Chapter VIII. Defence
264-290 Tej Sapru, M.R. Jayakar, N. Ayyangar, Jagadish Prasad view
Chapter IX. The Making of the New Constitution
291-306 Tej Sapru, M.R. Jayakar, N. Ayyangar, Jagadish Prasad view
Chapter X. Interim Arrangements and Conclusion
307-332 Tej Sapru, M.R. Jayakar, N. Ayyangar, Jagadish Prasad view
Notes
333-346 Tej Sapru, M.R. Jayakar, N. Ayyangar, Jagadish Prasad view
Appendices
i-xciii Tej Sapru, M.R. Jayakar, N. Ayyangar, Jagadish Prasad view
Index
xciv-cii Tej Sapru, M.R. Jayakar, N. Ayyangar, Jagadish Prasad view
Errata
ciii-ciii Tej Sapru, M.R. Jayakar, N. Ayyangar, Jagadish Prasad view

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