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The Calcutta Weekly Notes February 3 1947

1947

Specific reference was made at the princes' meeting to the claims made by a certain party in British India that party obviously; being the party of which Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru is the principal spokesman in the Constituent Assembly—that the sovereignty was vested in the people and not in the princes a prposition that the princely order naturally does not relish by any means. [...] This blatant self-assurance on the part of the Indian Princes—about whom as a class the less said the better—is due of course to the strategic advantage delberately offered to them in that Pandora’s box the Cabinet Mission’s “recommendtions.” The Nawab of Bhopal Chancellor of the Chamber of Princes boasted that “certain Indian political leaders” were claiming “far greater powers for the [...] The sort of missiles reported to have been confis cated during the search of the premises of the two organisations does not suggest a very pacific and laudable intention on the part of either of them. [...] A pleader acting for the decree-holder purchased the property sold in execution of the decree of his client in the name of his clerk and subsequently had the same tranferred to his wife. [...] A usufructuary mortgage deed provided that the mortgagor would have the right to redeem after the expiry of three years and three months and it further contained a 'stipulation that if the mortgage be not rdeemed on the date contemplated the morgagor would have the right to redeem the mortgage by paying off the debt on the 12th of April of any subsequent year Held (Full Bench: LEACH C. J.
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4
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India
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sarf.100104
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The Calcutta Weekly Notes February 3 1947
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