INDIA’S NEW CAPITAL.
OBJECTIONS PUT FORWARD BY LORD CURZON. London, February 22. Lord Curzon, in the House of Lords, raised a debate on the removal oft the capital to Delhi, saying the step Was taken on the initative of a Viceroy who had only been in India a few months, and without consultation of those responsible for the Government of India for the past twenty-five years. Not a single representative body in India favoured the policy. He feared the removal of the capital was more serious, fori'the country than to retain it in Calcutta. It was not desirable ■from a military standpoint, and also there was danger of making the Government more bureaucratic. He condemned the new policy in Bengal.
Lord Crewe said the Government had not departed from precedent in submitting the changes to Parliament. Without deprecating Calcutta, all knew that the Government carried on there for a short peripd of the'year, and the test’ of the year at Simla. ■ The I 'benefits of changing the capital were greater than 1 the dam-J age sustained.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 50, 23 February 1912, Page 3
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176INDIA’S NEW CAPITAL. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 50, 23 February 1912, Page 3
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