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The Causes of Present Discontents in India

1908

I would only beg consideration of the full meaning of the following almost incredible fact as recorded in the Englishman the leading British journal of the Indian metropolis :— Not a single elected Commissioner of the Calcutta Muncipality has been appointed to a seat on the Committee which is to draw up a scheme for the decentralisation of the administration of Calcutta." When the question [...] This is not the place to discuss the circumstances of the great calamity of 1857 but this I will say that the failure of the Sepoy Army to break our power was due to the loyalty of the civil population and especially to the goodwill of the two bodies that have recently shown marked discontent—I mean the Sikh population of the Punjab and the educated classes throughout India especially in Bengal [...] Does any member of the House of Commons reflect with what feelings that large body of educated young Indians who watched the debate from the gallery of the House of Commons on July 6th must have viewed the backsliding of the Liberal Party on that occasion ? The effect in India of its action may be judged from the following extract from the Bengali the leading Indian journal of Calcutta a few d [...] of the Government of India is as follows : A. Ex-officio the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal (or of the Punjab when the Council assembles in Simla) the Commander-in-Chief and the Members of the Exective Council 8 B. Additional officials to be nominated not exceeding 20 C. A Ruling Chief to be nominated by the Viceroy D. Elected members : — (a) By the Chambers of Commerce of Calcutta and Bomba [...] Both of these districts have been subject to the administration of Bengal from Calcutta from the earliest days of the British occupation." In 1896 when the suggestion of Partition was very severely condemned by the High Court the Pioneer declared that : " If we British were a logical people and impatient of anomalies the relief of the oveworked government of the Lower Provinces would lie ir
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Pages
120
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.142694
Segment Pages Author Actions
Preface
1-16 C. J. O’Donnell view
Chapter I Introduction
17-25 unknown view
Chapter II India and Parliament
26-32 unknown view
Chapter III The Council of India and Mr. Morley'ߣs Reforms
33-43 unknown view
Chapter IV Lord Curzon and Educated India
44-52 unknown view
Chapter V The Partition of Bengal
53-66 unknown view
Chapter VI The Musalmans and Partition
67-75 unknown view
Chapter VII Baiting the Bengali
76-82 unknown view
Chapter VIII A Real High Court of Justice
83-91 unknown view
Chapter IX “Sedition” in the Punjab
92-102 unknown view
Chapter X Rack-Taxing in Rural India
103-113 unknown view
Chapter XI The Decadence of the Indian Administration
114-120 unknown view

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