The Indian Annual Register. An Annual Digest of Public Affairs in India Recording the Nation’s Activities each year in matters Political Economic Industrial Educational Social Etc. July-Dec 1931

An ugly feature of the disturbance was that the Mahomedens cut the telephone line from the jail to the palace and the police headquarters so as to prevent news of the assault reaching the Government authorities, This the police said was evidence that the assailants had plotted their raid on the prison with great care and several days in advance. [...] One resolution emphatically, repudiated the scheme of Federation adumbrated at the Round Table Conference on the ground that the wishes of the States' Subjects were not consulted either by the Princes or by the British Government, that it involves division of paramountcy which besides being highly inconsistent with the true spirit and principles of Federation was bound to work as a handicap on the [...] It was an exposure of the sabotage tactics of the bureaucracy to undermine the whole basis of the Candbi-Irwin Settlement, The document threw lurid light on the bureaucratic mentality in regard to the implementing of the terms of the Settlement. [...] The President, in the course of his speech, condemned the policy of the Mysore Government in regard to the National Flag and prohibition of peaceful picketing. [...] The speaker pointed out the need for responsible government. —The Conference passed a number of resolutions, chief am)ng them being the demand for respon- sible government in the State, condemning the attitude of the Government towards picketing, support to the Tagadur Khadi centre, and a strong appeal to the Government to effect a cut in the salaries.