Papers by Command Volume 76, PT. 2 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...are only so much waste of paper and waste of thought. As long as the people have no share in the actual administration of the country or in the deliberations of the Supreme Council, the efforts of the Government will prove of no avail, and any reform measure short of what the people require or what their capacity demands cannot have any abiding effect on the present unrest in the country. But for the present the Government have carried that point. They have put forward their measures of reform, their tinsel reform, and the country is busily engaged in discussing its merits and demerits. Perhaps that is what the Government wanted and they have got it to their full satisfaction. NIHAL CHAND, Barrister-at-Law. No. 379, dated Jullundur, 29th January 1908. From--Lieutenant-colonel H. S. P. Davies, Commissioner, Jullundur Division. To--The Chief Secretary to Government, Punjab. In continuation of this office letter no. 397-1., and endorsements, no. 3903 and no. 4158, dated, respectively, the 2nd, 3rd, and 17th December 1907, I have the honour to forward a note by the Honourable Sardar Partab Singh of Kapurthala, containing an expression of his opinion on the measures proposed by the Government of Undia forgiving the people cf India wider opportunities of exrre fing their views on administrative matters. H. S. P. DAVIES, Commi sioner, Jullundur Divisin. Opinion on proposals made in Government of Irdia letter cf 24th August 1907. I. The Imperial Advisory Council.--(1) The Imperial Advisory Council as sketched in paragraph 4 of Government of India letter is a need that cannot be supplied too scon. Hitherto almost all criticism of public questions, whether from platform or in the Council Chamber, has been betraying a certain amount of paity tactics...