The Growth of Indian Constitution and AdministrationThe Author, 1925 - 592 pages |
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administration appointed authority Bengal Bentinck Bihar Bill Board Bombay British budget Calcutta Central Government Central Provinces Chapter Civil Service Collector Commission Commissioner Constitution Cornwallis Court of Directors Dalhousie Department Devolution District duties Dyarchy East India Company elected electorates England English established Executive Council exercised expenditure extensive famine Finance functions Government of India Governor Governor-General in Council important improvement increase Joint Committee judicial Land Revenue laws Legislative Council Lord Cornwallis Lord Curzon Lord Ripon Lord William Bentinck M. C. Report Madras Mahomedan majority Maratha matters Ministers Municipal Native nominated non-official Orissa Parliamentary Peshwa political position President previous sanction principle proposed Provincial Councils Provincial Governments Punjab question Rayats recommended Reforms regard Regulations relations Reserved subjects Resolution Responsible Government responsible to Parliament Rules rupees Secretary Self-Government servants Settlement territories Transferred subjects Viceroy Village Communities vote Warren Hastings whole Zamindars
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Page 270 - The policy of His Majesty's Government, with which the Government of India are in complete accord, is that of the increasing association of Indians in every branch of the administration and the gradual development of self-governing institutions with a view to the progressive realization of responsible government in India as an integral part of the British Empire.
Page 273 - There should be, as far as possible, complete popular control in local bodies and the largest possible independence for them of outside control.
Page 566 - The local legislature of any province has power, subject to the provisions of this Act, to make laws for the peace and good government of the territories for the time being constituting that province.
Page 207 - The only possible solution of the difficulty would appear to be gradually to give the Provinces a larger measure of self-government, until at last India would consist of a number of administrations, autonomous in all provincial affairs, with the Government of India above them all, and possessing power to interfere in cases of misgovernment, but ordinarily restricting their functions to matters of Imperial concern.
Page 151 - There is one great question to which we should look in all our arrangements ; what is to be their final result on the character of the people ? Is it to be raised or is it to be lowered ? Are we to be satisfied with merely securing our power and protecting the inhabitants, leaving them to sink gradually in character, lower than at present, or are we to endeavour to raise then- character, and to render them worthy of filling higher situations in the management of their country, and of devising plans...
Page 552 - Company, or any Part of the unwritten Laws or Constitution of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland whereon may depend in any Degree the Allegiance of any Person to the Crown of the United Kingdom, or the Sovereignty or Dominion of the said Crown over any Part of the said Territories.
Page 535 - Provided that a grant or appropriation made in accordance with provisions or restrictions prescribed by the Secretary of State in Council with the concurrence of a majority of votes at .1 meeting of the Council shall bo deemed to bs made with the concurrence of a majority of such votes.
Page 148 - I conceive, contributed more than any other cause to the preservation of the people of India through all the revolutions and changes which they have suffered; and is in a high degree conducive to their happiness, and to the enjoyment of a great portion of freedom...
Page 463 - In the opinion of the Committee, therefore, the Secretary of State should as far as possible avoid interference on this subject when the Government of India and its Legislature are in agreement, and they think that his intervention, when it does take place, should be limited to safeguarding the international obligations of the Empire or any fiscal arrangements within the Empire to which His Majesty's Government is a party.
Page 346 - Act; provided that the Governor-General in Council may, by notification in the Gazette of India...