Section 13 (2). Section 21 Section 26 Section 27 (10) Sections 28 (1) and 30 (1). Section 28 (2). Sections 63 (3) and 74 (2). Sections 64 (3), 75 (3) and 78 (2). Sections 67 (3) and 80 (3). Section 86 (1) Section 92 (3) Section 94 " " The words or any of the matters aforesaid" shall be substituted for the words or the levying of war, or the making of peace, or negotiations or treaties with any prince or state." At the end of this section shall be added the words "Provided that a grant or appropriation made in accordance with provisions or restrictions prescribed by the Secretary of State in Council with the concurrence of a majority of votes at a meeting of the council shall be deemed to be made with the concurrence of a majority of such votes." " The words or when questions are asked "shall be inserted after the words "at any such discussion." The words "and a Lieutenant-Governor in Council" shall be inserted after the words a Governor in Council." The words "or special duty" shall be inserted after the words "is absent on leave." The words " or special duty" shall be inserted after the words absence on leave," and the words " absence may be permitted " shall be substituted for the words" leave may be granted." Section 120 The words "in British India," where secondly occurring, shall be repealed. In this section shall be inserted the following sub-section : ' (1A) The letters patent establishing, or vesting jurisdiction, powers or authority in, a high court may be amended from time to time by His Majesty by further letters patent." The word "law" shall be substituted for the word Act." " The words any British subject for the time being within" shall be substituted for the words Christian subjects of His Majesty resident in." " " The words " lieutenant-governor and chief commissioner" shall be inserted after the words each governor," and the words "the executive council of the governor-general or of a governor or lieutenant-governor " shall be substituted for the words " their respective executive councils." At the end of this section shall be added the following sub-section :— " '(3) On the occurrence of a vacancy in the office of advocate-general, or during any absence or deputation of an advocate-general, the GovernorGeneral in Council in the case of Bengal, and the local Government in other cases, may appoint a person to act as advocate-general; and the person so appointed may exercise the powers of an advocate-general until some person has been appointed by His Majesty to the office and has entered on the discharge of his duties, or until the advocate-general has returned from his absence or deputation, as the case may be, or until the Governor-General in Council or the local Government, as the case may be, cancels the acting appointment." The words "Secretary of State" shall be substituted for the words Chancellor of the Exchequer "; the words " Madras or Bombay "shall be inserted after the words Bishop of Calcutta," where thirdly and fourthly occurring; and the words "to be paid quarterly" and the word "British "shall be repealed. Section 131 (3). For the Fifth Schedule shall be substituted the following :— PROVISIONS OF THIS ACT WHICH MAY BE REPEALED OR POSTSCRIPT EVENTS in India move so rapidly that no book dealing with the history of that country can be in any sense complete. But a few words may be added by way of comment on the present situation and forecast of what may be expected in the near future. That the Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms would be unpopular and in the main unsuccessful was very generally expected. They did not meet the wants of any of the parties in India, and they presented many obvious defects. Perhaps the chief ground on which they were open to criticism lay in the fact that they did not achieve the purpose for which they were planned. They were designed to teach Indians the art of government without risking any great injury to the administrative fabric of the country. That, however, as both reflection and experience will show, is an impossible task. There can be no true political training without serious responsibility, and it was just because that sense of responsibility was wanting that the Indians felt that the Reforms were unreal. The opposition to this scheme of government has naturally taken the form of a very general demand for its revision before the allotted period of ten years, and there seems no doubt that some very important concessions to popular opinion will be made. The recent official inquiry into the success of the scheme revealed but little admiration for Dyarchy", and seemed to show that it was not regarded with any particular enthusiasm in official circles; and without such enthusiasm on the part of both Indians and English it could not possibly be successful. It must be added too that the mere fact of the Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms having been granted and the fact that their provisional nature was from the first frankly and authoritatively acknowledged, make it more easy than might be thought to take a further step. What that step is to be is a large and vastly important question. One or two suggestions may be made by way of answering it. 1. It is clear that "Dyarchy" will give place to some more responsible form of government in the Provinces. What the results will be is a problem for the politician and not for the historian. All that the latter can say is that experience has shown that it is difficult to concede as much as was conceded in the Reforms without going much farther. Those who have read India's long and troubled history will, however, be prepared for the statement that it is not probable that Western ideas of representative government and the party system will be what India will finally adopt, |