The Gazette of India. March 10 1917 (Part VI)

In the more modern Universities of the west the idea has gained ground that the exclusive province of a U niv er sity is not merely though this is mainly the case the extension of the bounds of human knowledge and the imparing of higher culture to candidates prepared for it but likewise the popularisation of knowledge. [...] The landed aristocracy of the province of Agra have not any political institution of their own of the status and the representative character of the British Indian Association but I am in a position to say that the views of the majority of the landed aristocracy in your province are entirely in agreement with the views recorded by the Taluqdars' Association.' Now we had at that particular meetin [...] Though I have not the privilege of a peep into the confidential papers of the Goverment I think Sir that from the statement of the Hon'ble the Home Member we may assume that the Government of India have recommended that a Governor should be appointed instead of a Lieutenant-Governor because unless that was the case in view of the note of dissent which he had vritten on a previous occasion [...] " The establishment of an Executive Council to assist the Lieutenant Govenor of our province was one of the original proposals of reform in the scheme of Lord Morley but the proposal was defeated by the action of a few Members of the House of Lords ; and it was d'efeated a second time last year by the' action of the same party. [...] But this much with your leave I should like to say that public opinion in the Punjab is in hearty sympathy with the desire of the people of the United Provinces to have this reform in the administration of that province carried out as early as possible : In view however of the fact that the Hon'ble the Horne Member has told us that the Government of India have unanimously recommended to the