Papers Relating to the Application of the Principle of Dyarchy to the Government of India: To which are Appended the Report of the Joint Select Committee and the Government of India Act, 1919

Clarendon Press, 1920 - 606 pages

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INTRODUCTION xixlxi	xix

the Duke Memorandum was not published xxv Its circulation in India	xxvi

to be written xxxi The term dyarchy Its origin and utility	xxxii

Its premature publication	xxxviii

MEMORANDUM OF EVIDENCE BEFORE JOINT	xliv

my evidence at length xliv Inconsistency of MontaguChelmsford report	xlv

mittees amendment criticized xlv How governors might improve	liv

handled in England lix Indias opportunity of wider service lx	lx

Lack of contact between officials and people in Bengal 255Inade	258

and tax 263 Reasons for rent theory 264Importance of retaining	267

tion 268Famine remissions 269Lightness of government demand	274

revenue summarized 280 Conclusions deduced 281 Taxation burden	284

VI	291

Backwardness of primary education 296 Gokhales Bill and Government	297

Agricultural education 299 View of education in rural India	298

303Mohammedan schools 303 Fees 304 Teachers pay 304	304

THE DUKE MEMORANDUM 137	1

The legislature 6 Relations to Indian Government 6Demand	8

executive 12in legislature 13 Direct election 14 Increase	16

Transferred powers 21 Education and local government 22 Sanita	24

of revenue 26New sources 28 Division of officials 29 Accounts	30

Dangers of present system 36 Advantages of dyarchy 36 Its progres	37

Extension of movement to Canada 41Indian question discussed with	46

Visit to India advised 49 Arrival in India 49 Rearrangement	64

77Treatment of this subject in the problem of the Commonwealth 77	77

Misrepresentation in Indian reviews 78 Respect for Indian suscepti	83

British affairs 85 Indias choice between the two 85 Representation	89

LETTER TO THE HON BABU BHUPENDRA NATH	96

Reasons for defining goal 102 Federalized countries to be imitated	103

simultaneous 132 Otherwise it will block progress of electoral govern	108

Need for vertical as well as horizontal divisions 108 Each province must	119

Appended criticisms 124 Prefatory note	125

training should begin in village and other local bodies 133 Conclusions	134

tions Indianization of services Commissions for Indians 140 Imperial	140

Imperial civil service suggested 145 Definition of sphere of central	148

Elementary education recommended for transfer 154 Importance	155

Must be protected by sufficient representation 161Difficulty of pro	163

recanted 166 Immediate reform of Indian legislature desired	167

Views of Malcolm and Munro 170 Intemperance of British opinion after	173

Low political moral Inefficiency Shortcomings of zamin	179

Not acceptable to Indian opinion 184 Administrative structure	185

chambers 192The ballot	192

From a teacher 195 Imperial reform disapproved 195	195

selfsacrifice in India	200

Supervisory functions 205Relations of services to departments	208

Provincial settlements 209 Fixed assignments 211 How estimates	216

Parganas villages and relative officials 219 District	223

revenues The octroi 232Their functions 233 Note by an officer	238

LAND REVENUE 239290	239

Its origin according to Manu 240 Reforms of Akbar 242Question	248

stacles to female education and measures to overcome them 307	310

Training of teachers 312Inspectors 313 Their relations to district	317

APPENDIX Note on HindiUrdu question	323

division into Provincial States 330 Reform should begin in the provinces	331

Electorates 337 Assemblies and their functions 337Creation	341

Composition of central legislature 344 Standing civil service commission	344

suggested 350Need for dispatch 350 Importance of creating	355

by the Congress and League 359Answer of Imperial Government	363

cannot be trained by schoolteaching 368 Education without responsi	369

Meaning of control discussed 374Positive as well as negative control	376

executive and legislature 380How effected in England 380	382

In the Transvaal 383India need not repeat mistakes made in these	390

Choice between Europe and America as models for India 395 Dominion	397

Övercentralization in United Kingdom France and Italy 402 Origin	403

The case of Orissa 407 Sind Marathas Canarese Tamil and Telugu	410

local and political government distinguished 416 The London County	417

superiority of autocratic decisions really superficial 423 Basic reasons	424

In the end character produces efficiency 425Though efficiency	430

tion to dyarchy by Nationalists 432 By Europeans 433	438

desired by landholders 443 Reasons against conceding this demand	444

Chief Commissioners duties in sphere of reserved powers 448	448

Government attitude to social reform criticized 454 Enabling legislation	457

462Suspensory power 463 Periodic commissions of inquiry	463

Methods adopted 469 Origin of joint address 469 Reason for English	474

Its effect on our position at the Peace Conference 476 Pledges as	481

Question 1 482 Importance of affirming authority of Parliament	482

Elected members should control transferred powers	489

The Joint Address 491 The question of areas used as basis of attack	497

to their constituents only criticized 499 Confusion of ideas underlying	509

Safeguards to suspensory power 515 Governors should	515

must be commensurate to duties 518 Responsibility of executive	522

Cornwall Lewis on the danger of mock parliaments	529

transferred subjects and elect its own speaker 533 President of legis	539

Direct election advised 545 Council of state not even popular	545

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administration affairs agricultural appointed areas assembly August 20 authority Bengal British India cabinet cent cesses Civil classes collector colonies Commissioner Committee constitution criticism decision departments discussion district boards District Officer dyarchy effect elected members electorates England English European existing experience fact functions give Government of India Governor groups hand Hindi Hindu Imperial Government Imperial Legislative Council Imperial Parliament income increase interests land revenue Legislative Council legislature letter Lord matter ment ministers Mohammedans municipal municipal boards non-official official opinion political popular government position possible powers practice present primary education principle problem proposals Provincial Council provincial governments question realize reason reform rent representative responsible government result Round Table scheme schools Secretary settlement South Africa suggest taxation tion Torre San Patrizio transferred United Provinces Urdu vernacular village vote voters whole words zamindars

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Pealkiri	Papers Relating to the Application of the Principle of Dyarchy to the Government of India: To which are Appended the Report of the Joint Select Committee and the Government of India Act, 1919
Contributor	Lionel Curtis
Publisher	Clarendon Press, 1920
Original from	Harvard University
Digitized	7 juuli 2005
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