REFORM IN INDIA
BRITAIN AND THE NATIVE STATES ft NO PRESSURE ON RULERS. RECOGNITION OF DIVERSE CIRCUMSTANCES. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.30 a.m.) RUGBY, December 16. The Under Secretary for India (Mr A. J. Muirhead) stated 'in the House of Commons that in India, the Paramount Power would not obstruct proposals for constitutional advance initiated by the rulers of Indian States, but Britain had no intention of bringing any form of pressure to bear upon them to initiate constitutional changes. It rested with the rulers themselves to decide what form of government they should adopt in the diverse conditions of the Indian States. The obligations of the Paramount Power to the States extended to the protecting of the rulers against violence and disorder and to advising and assisting the rulers in remedying such legitimate grievances of their subjects as might be found to exist.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 December 1938, Page 8
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146REFORM IN INDIA Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 December 1938, Page 8
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