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Scott is formulating would provide the best and most practicable solu tion is a qucation on which the Princes themselves are divided. The Nizam of 'Hyderabad pursues hie Bolitary way, after making claims to negotiate with the British Government on an equal footing. which led Lord Reading, on the eve of his departure from India, to define in exact terms the supremacy of the British Crown and the ulti At no time in the history of themate responsibility of the British British connexion with India, has Government to preserve peace and
AN EMPIRE PROBLEM.
EMPIRE RULED" BY ETON.
WHERE HER SONS ACT AS GOVERNORS."
Eton, May 20. On May 30 the College will have a holiday in. celebration of the appointment of an Old Etonian as Lord Chancellor, an opportuni
years.
the problem of "Indian India" been good order throughout India. Thoty that has not arisen for 150
the important
Mysore, States of
Eton has produced more Prime more prominently before British public than at present. Travancore, and Barola at present Ministers and Viceroys than of The arrival in London of that ac- stand outside the group advised by Lord Chancellors. There are only complished and experienced ad- Sir Leslie Scott. On the other three predecessors of Lord Hall- ministrator, Sir Harcourt Butler, hand, that group includes all the sham, states the Eton College and his colleagues of the Indian members of the Standing Com- Chronicle. States Inquiry Committee; of Sir mitteo of the Chamber of Princes. Lesile Scott, after a sojourn of The influential rulers of Patiala,
The first was Charles Talbot,
some months in India advising & Kashmir, and Bhopal are, coming who was at Eton about 1700, and Henry Bathurst was at large and Important group of to this country to join the Jam was Lord Chancellor from 1783 to States on the case to be presented Saheb in support of the scheme, 1737. to the Committee; and of the with the acquiescence of such able Eton in 1725 and became Lord Maharajah of Chancellor in 1771 in the Ministry Maharajah Jam Saheb of Navana Princes as the
of Lord North a fellow Elonian. gar, the first of a band of some of Alwar. the most prominent of the Indian Princes who are coming to London this summer to assist in the final shaping of the case.
Sir Leslie Scott's Scheme. The plan, roughly shaped at a conference of the Princes held at How comen it that the investiga- Bombay, takes the form of a federal tion is distinct from, and in ne scheme under the Viceroy, in which Bense subordinate to, the inquiry the States Will Have representation, presided over by Sir John Simon? and which will decide matters indiviually The answer is that the Parliamen- affecting the States tary Commission, by express pro-inter as and in their political re vision of the Act of 1919, is con-lations with British India. It also cerned with "British India," asecks the creation of some union term which in legal codes is in body through which the Princes cluded in, but not synonymous may have a voice in the determina- with, India.". The latter term istion of matters of common concern also applicable to "any territories to them and to British India in of any Native Prince or Chief un-economic and other spheres. The der the suzerainity of His Majesty, scheme envisages a definite exercised through the Governor-stitution and a supreme court for
its interpretation. General in Council,"
There are obvious and serious 708 States,
objections to the setting up of "the Viceroy in States Council" from, separate body but co-equal with, the Governor
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The Elon College Chronicle adds the following comment: "With, to drop their tilles, Irwin as Viceroy OUTWARD SERVICE of India, Balfour as President of
The territories, to which this legal phraseology is applied com- prise one-third of the area of the Indian continent, and contain 72 millions of the 319 millions inhabit the Princes, in advancing this the Council, and Salisbury as Lord | scheme, are making constructive Privy Seal, with Athlone, Willing- proposals which call for thorough don, Stonehaven, and Fergusson and patient examination. More respectively Governor-General of over, its sponsors are actuated by South Africa, Canada, Australia, a warm attachment to the British and New Zealand, with Lloyd in connexion, repeatedly attested in Egypt and Plumer in Palestine, time of need. A point has been with Eustace Percy in control of reached at which the leaders of ad- British Education, and Walter vanced thought In British India Guinness of British agriculture, openly put forward a claim to with one Captain of Oppidans, future control over the States, in Douglas Hogg, in charge of the disregard of the fact that the States Seals, and another, Bridgeman, in Empire may feel secure, and Eton are bound, not to British India, charge of the seas, the British satisfied that an Harrovian Prime but to His Majesty's Government,
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ing the Indian Empire.
The States vary greatly in size and resources, in the character of their peoples and rulers, and in the amount of independence which by treaty, or usage the latter enjoy in the internal administration of their territories. They range from tiny principalities of one or two villages to the 83,000 square miles and the 11,000,000 inhabitants of Hyder bad. There are 700 States in all, but of these no more than 108 are under "salute" rulera, entitled in their own right to membership of
The Headline Danger. the Chamber of Princes, the lessor
It would be a great mistake to States being grouped for repre- sentation therein. To none of assure that the States are unpro- these territories are the laws madegressive because as intervals some fofly or scandal looms large in tele- by Indian legislatures applicable.
The impossibility of disregard graphic despatches. Sir Harcourt ing the Indian States in any con- Butler is in a good position to stitutional changes which may re-judge of this question, for he has sult from the work of the Simon been touring with his colleagues Commission gives to the Harcourt many of the States with which he Butler inquiry 11 significance was brought into intimate contact. greater than might be assumed as Foreign Secretary to the Govern- from the terms of reference. The ment of India, twenty years ago. Committee is to make recommenda- On arriving in London he bore tions in regard to the financial and testimony to a steady advance of economic relations between British standards of government, and said India and the Indian States. It is that recent events, such as the ap- of the Com- also required to ascertain and de-pointment and tour Heribe the political relations actually mittee, and the personal interest of between the British Government the Viceroy, had stimulated nelivity and the States, having regard to in the direction of modernising ad- treaty rights and obligations, sup-ministrative practice.
as they There can be no doubt that the plemented and modified have been by usinge and sufferance, great bulk of the people of the In- The Committee
not be dian States are inspired by a deep authorised to offer a detailed solu- sense of loyalty to their Rulers and tion of what the Viceroy has delivé contentedly under them. scribed as the extremely difficult political puzzle of the constitutional position of the Princes; but at least the inquiry will prepare the way. The door. It opens cannot be shut. The Solitary Nizam. Whether the ambitious and far- reaching scheme which Sir Leslic
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