Letters to the People of India on Responsible Government (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from Letters to the People of India on Responsible Government

The momentous issues now before the Secretary of State will shortly be transferred to England for decision, for which reason it is desirable that these papers should be published here. They are printed as they were written in India, with some slight correction of' blemishes due to the haste with which they were first produced.

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Excerpt from Letters to the People of India on Responsible Government

In submitting this book to English readers it is necessary to explain the circumstances which led to its production while the Secretary of State was in India. For several years before the war I had undertaken, in conjunction with a number of friends, to study the mutual relations of the United Kingdom and the self-governing Dominions. Some results of these studies were published in 1916 in two volumes, one entitled The Problem of the Commonwealth, the other The Commonwealth of Nations. At the outset I had thought that the problem involved in the mutual relations of the self-governing peoples could be separated from the problem involved in. their relations to India. The latter I imagined could be left to future generations. Further study soon convinced me that the two problems were, in fact, inseparable. They were, in truth, but different aspects of a single problem, so that any attempt, to settle the one without first thinking out the other, was sure to miscarry. The, war, moreover, was bound to precipitate the whole issue.

It was clearly impossible to formulate any conclusions on the future place of India in the Commonwealth without some first-hand knowledge of the country, such as, in the case of the Dominions, I had obtained by residence in one of them and frequent visits to the others. Accordingly I came to India for that purpose in October 1916.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.