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Indian Minerals April 1947
1924
Summary
It traces his connection with the Servants of India Socity and his services to the country as a Congressman as a member of the Imperial Council of the Council of State of the Moderate Deputation to England and later of the Imperial Conference and the League of Nations. [...] He touched the hearts of his audience when he affirmed that the government of the people for the people and by the people was the only form of self-government which would satisfy the aspirations of India. [...] One idea of great usefulness which the President of the Congress put forward was that at the end of the war the Imperial authorities should issue a declration definitely accepting the political goal of the National Congress and the Muslim League. [...] name of the Family Copact.' There were bitter disputes arising out of the unjust way in which the Crown lands were distributed as well as what were known as the Clergy Reserves.' In Lower Canada the minority of the English practically monopolised political power and the public service and the bulk of the trade was in their hands. [...] But so high is the expectation which the public entertain now-a-days of the legislative councils and so keen is their sense of the impotence of their representatives from a constitutional point of view SELF-GOVERNMENT FOR INDIA 39 that nothing can satisfy them hereafter short of the power of regulating the policy disposing of the finances and controlling the executive.
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