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The Political Future of India

1919

The prince and the peasant the landlord and the ryot the professor and the student the politician and the layman all have spoken. [...] All methods of agitation were resorted to in order to make the opinion of the country known to the Government and to warn the letter against the danger of defying the united will of the people. [...] Why should the whole cost of that building in Charles Street including the building itself be an item of the Indian taxpayer's burden rather than of this House of Commons and the people of the country?""6 THE POLITICAL FUTURE OF INDIA Can and does the House of Commons control the India Office? [...] On that date he made in the House of Commons the following memorable statement: The policy of His Majesty's Government with which the Government of India are in complete accord is that of the increasing association of Indians in every branch of the administration and the gradual develoment of self-governing institutions with a view to the progressive realisation of responsible government in I [...] The cities and consequently the middle classes forincd but an insignificant factor in the population." These quotations reveal the real character of the European democracy in ancient and medimval and even in early modern Europe up to the end of the eighteenth century or to be more accurate to the time of the French Revolution.
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Pages
265
Published in
United States
SARF Document ID
sarf.147277
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-i Lajpat Rai view
Preface
ii-xxviii Lajpat Rai view
Introductory
1-15 Lajpat Rai view
Democracy in India
16-29 Lajpat Rai view
The Present Ideals
30-35 Lajpat Rai view
The Stages
36-38 Lajpat Rai view
The Conditions of the Problem
39-61 Lajpat Rai view
The Public Services in India
62-83 Lajpat Rai view
The Indian Army and Navy
84-90 Lajpat Rai view
The European Comunity in India
91-97 Lajpat Rai view
The Native States
98-109 Lajpat Rai view
The Proposals
110-135 Lajpat Rai view
India’s Claim to Fiscal Autonomy “Industries and Tariffs”
136-145 Lajpat Rai view
The Revolutionary Movement
146-163 Lajpat Rai view
The Punjab
164-174 Lajpat Rai view
Recommendations for Repressive Legislation
175-180 Lajpat Rai view
The Revolutionary Party
181-189 Lajpat Rai view
Education
190-196 Lajpat Rai view
The Problem
197-204 Lajpat Rai view
The International Aspect
205-208 Lajpat Rai view
Appendices
209-237 Lajpat Rai view

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