Congress Select Committee on the Financial Obligations between Great Britain and India

110" CHAPTER I. Introductory Scope and Purpose of the Enquiry 1. Tei-ms of Reference.—This Committee was appointed by the Working Committee of the All India Congress Committee to carry out a scrutiny into the financial transactions of the East India Company and the British Government it? [...] 3. Object and Scope of the Enquiry.—The Terms of the Reference made to this Committee indicate a threefold Enquiry :—(a) There is in the first place the aggregate of the transactions of the East India CoEast India Company's pany and the British Government which My@ resulted in Transactions. [...] The Government of India which followed or.succeeded the Company's &overnment in virtue of an Act of Parliament were saddled with these burdens ; and they also though supposed to be created and instituted in the interests and for the welfare of the Indian people as the Queen's Proclamation has it never scrutinised the fairness of the transaction by which they came into charge of the Governme [...] 4. (b) Transactions of the Government of India under the British Crown.--The transactions of the British Government of India since the day the present regime cafne into effect are the net block of Considerations of items. [...] 6.* 6. Dangers of Narrow Interpretation of Reference.—The Committee's Reference narrowly interpreted woulil perhaps not permit a comprehensive review of the Fiscal and Financial Policy of the Indian Objects of the Enquiry.