Relations Of India With British Empire
Received Thursday 7 p.m. LONDON, Dee. 1. ' India will become a Republic on January 2(i, while remaining a member 1 of the British Commonwealth and it is necessary for the United Kingdom Parliament to legislate to safeguard to India and Indians the rights and privileges they at present enjoy under British law. A Bill to provide for this was formallv introduced in the Com 1110ns 011 Wednesday and will be debated nexi week. It is entitled the. India (Conse([nential Provisiona) -Tiill and it pro vides that ai'ler India beeotnes a Republie, ail British laws shall have "the saine operation in relation to India and to persons and things in any way belonging to or conneeted witb India," as they would have had lf India had not. beeome a Republic. The introduetion of tbe Bill was' impiied in an agreement reaehed at tbe Commonwealth Prime Ministers' rneeting in Eondon last April by which India is to become a Republic while continu ing her full membersbip of the British Commonwealth and acknowledging the King as head of the Commonwealth. It wrill regularise the position of Indians resident in BUtain after India becomes a Republic — eontinuing all their existing rights and privileges — and it will secure to India among other things, the continuance "of existing customs and | pref erences.
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Chronicle (Levin), 2 December 1949, Page 5
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