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Indian Statutory Commission. Memorandum Submitted by the Government of Assam to the Indian Statutory Commission

1930

The following rules made in 1888 for the towns of Sylh.et Gauhati and Dibrugarh may serve to illustrate the kind of franchise prescribed :— Every male person of the age of twenty-one years or more who is at the time of election and has been for a period of not less than twelve months immediately preceding such election resident within the limits of the municipality and wh(1) has during [...] Under the rules at present in force two-thirds of the members of each committee are elected the basis of the franchise being similar to that of full municipalities except that the minimum qualifying rate is one ru.pee and the minimum oualifying annual value twenty rupees. [...] The enfranchisement of women had unimportant results except in Shillong where the matrarchal system of the Khasis led to the substitution of women for the bulk of the male voters. [...] The most obvious disparity however occurs between the proportions enfranchised in the rural areas and the towns especially in view of the rural or semrural areas which many of the towns in Assam embrace. [...] It has been urged that in view of the importance of the industry which pays one-ninth of the land revenue probably over half the excise revenue and a fraction of the income-tax varying from a half to two-thirds that it is under-represented with only one-eighth of the elected members.
government politics public policy
Pages
613
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.100213
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-iii unknown view
Chapter I. The Representative System as Applied to British India
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Chapter II. The Suitability of Existing Areas for Legislative and Administrative Purposes and for Growth of Representative Institutions
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Chapter III. The Local Self-Governing Bodies
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Chapter IV. The Provincial Government
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Chapter V. Relations Between Central and Provincial Governments
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Chapter VI. The Courts and the Judiciary
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Chapter VII. The Position of the Services
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Chapter VIII. The Growth of Education
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Supplementary Memoranda of the Government of Assam Presented to the Statutory Commission
549-583 unknown view
Index
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Backmatter
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