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The Asiatic Review. October 1937

1937

In each of the six provinces in which the Congress party commanded a majority the Governor invited the leader of the party in the local Legislature to form a ministry. [...] He said : ( The essence of the new Constitution is that the initiative and responsrifility for the whole government of the province though in a form vesting in the Governor passes to the ministry as soon as it takes office. [...] It may be that the Governor may agree with and therefore accept the advice of the Council of Ministers but even then it will be action not of the Council but of the Governor in the exercise of his individual judgment.690 Provincial Autonomy: The First Three Months The provisions of the Act with respect to the functions to be exercised by the Governor in his discretion and in his individual jud [...] The past especially the immediate past always throws light on the present."698 Provincial Autonomy: The First Three Months Everyone who followed the proceedings of the Round Table Conference and the Joint Parliamentary Committee will remember that two of the main difficulties in arriving at a simple constitution were firstly the minority question and secondly this question of the psychologi [...] You can never be sure that it would be accepted by the electorate as a whole even if the majority of the representatives or of the wire-pullers put it forward as the will of the people." For the protection of the minorities it is iportant to bear in mind social cleavages in India.
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Provincial Autonomy: The First Three Months
683-708 Phiroze Sethna view
The Population Problem In India
709-737 Radhakomal Mukerjee view
The New Governor of Bombay : Farewell Luncheon
738-744 unknown view
The Seventieth Annual Report of the East India Association
745-753 James Mackenna, Frank H. Brown view
Seventieth Annual Meeting
754-758 unknown view
Maternal Welfare Work in Bombay
759-767 Cowasji Jehangir view
Wireless in India
768-774 E. Phillips view
The Jammu and Kashmir State
775-786 Ram Kak view
Natural Resources of the Far East: A Qualitative Summary
787-795 Wilbur Burton view
Chinese Social Legislation and the Problem of its Enforcement
796-811 C.S. Chan view
Some Aspects of the Rehabilitation of China’s Railways
812-832 Kenneth Cantlie view
Something about Kedah
833-842 Tunku Nong view
Chinese Landscape Painting
843-849 Woo Lee-Fu view
Vocational Education in India
850-857 Stanley Rice view
Before and After the Palestine Report
858-868 Archer Cust view
The Japanese War in China
869-878 O.M. Green view
A French Traveller in India a Hundred Years Ago Conclusion of His Visit
879-888 Philip Morrel view
The International Exhibition in Paris: an Impression of the Indo-China Pavilion
889-890 Basabandra Tagore view
Reviews of Books
891-898 unknown view