INDIAN GOVERNMENT REFORM
BOLD SCHEME BY LORD ISLINGTON
A FEDERAL COMMONWEALTH
(E-ec. August 10, 0.5 a.m.)
London, August 9. Lord Islington (formerly Governor of New Zealand), speaking unofficially at Oxford, outlined a scheme for Indian reform on bold lines of decentralisation, aiming at a federation of self-governing States with a central authority controlling national matters, resembling tho Australian Commonwealth. Ho proposed the ceration of selected local bodies with taxing powers, controlling local matters, and also handing over to tho provincial governments matters such polioe, agriculture, public works, and industry, each province working o\it its own redemption. He suggested that such a Government should consist of a Governor and two European and two Indian Executive Councillors, the latter properly representative of tho various classes of Indian society.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3159, 10 August 1917, Page 5
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128INDIAN GOVERNMENT REFORM Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3159, 10 August 1917, Page 5
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