The Central Legislature in British India, 192147
Parliamentary Experiences Under the Raj
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The Central Legislature in British India, 192147
Parliamentary Experiences Under the Raj
About this book
The Central Legislature in British India 1921–47: Parliamentary Experiences Under the Raj is an exceptional exposé of Colonial India's highest legislative body. With its wealth of materials and in-depth description of the former Indian Legislature's actual working, its political milieu and its institutional development, this book belongs to the larger genre of the British Indian narratives on the constitutional encounters between the rulers and the ruled. This book touches on a critical range of areas essential to our understanding of the British Raj in India. This book adds a significant depth to a neglected quarter of historical knowledge—the chronicle of parliamentary experiences and the representative institution-building in Colonial India. Undeniably, the Central Legislature was the only acknowledged all-India forum where the Indian legislators and the Imperial Executive, time and again, ran into each other. Yet, even at the lowest ebb of the Indian lawmakers' disillusionment, the two flanks, intermittently, showed a modicum of mutual respect: though limited, the two sides indirectly shared power, went through the motion and contributed to policy-making typically over a strip of non-controversial subjects.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Tables
- Foreword
- Preface
- Preface to the First Edition (1965)
- Acknowledgements for the Second Edition
- List of Abbreviations
- Chapter I. Development of the Central Legislature From 1861 to 1920
- Chapter II. The Central Legislature and Indian Politics, 1921 to 1947
- Chapter III. Nature of the Electoral System and Elections
- Chapter IV. Powers, Privileges, and Procedures in the Central Legislature
- Chapter V. The Composition and Political Groupings of the Two Houses
- Chapter VI. The Legislative Influence on Administration
- Chapter VII. Legislation With Special Reference to the Influence of Non-Official Members
- Chapter VIII. Financial Procedure in the Central Legislature
- Chapter IX. Political Grievances in the Central Legislature
- Chapter X. Relations Between the Two Chambers
- Chapter XI. Conclusion
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index