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FUTURE OF INDIA

PLANS FOR FEDERATION INQUIRIES THROUGHOUT STATES DISCUSSIONS WITH RULERS. .COMMITTEE WORK COMPLETED. CBritish Official Wireless.') Received 12.30 p.m. to-day. RUGBY, July 27 With the issue to-night of a report of the Indian Staters Inquiry Committee the work of all three committees appointed after the Round Table Conference ha,s been completed. The next important stage of the Indian situation will be the announcement, which is promised during the present summer, of the Government’s decision on the communal question. The States Inquiry Committee reached unanimous conclusions after 1000 miles of four among the Indian States during which, personal discussions were held with 88 rulers or their ministers a;s well as with deputations representing all classes. In the smaller States the purpose of the committee was to explore the .specific financial problems of each State, hearing in mind the. principle that an ideal system would be arrived at by arrangement by which the federal units would contribute on a. uniform basis to-the federal resources. The work involved the examination of the., existing rights of each State under its particular treaty with the Grown and the examination in detail of the contribution which certain States make and the value represented by the territories which isoine States have ceded to the Crown in return for guarantees of a military nature. The committe© prepared a balance sheet for each Indian State debiting the amounts in respect of certain immunities enjoyed and expediting it with its contribution to the Crown whch eventually passes into the revenues of the Government of India The object of the committee has been to suggest terms which could be fairly reasonably , accepted by those States and British India as a basis for mutual voluntary association. As far as the States are concerned such association must be achieved with each individually, as only in a very general sense is it possible to speak of the common interests of the States as contrasted with the interests of British India. The recommendation of the committee are thus intended to provide material for a settlement with each State on its entry into the federation on the basis of the balance sheet, taking into account the individual credits and debits. The committee, however, points out that by the very fact of entry into the federation the States would be making a contribution “whicff’hgs not to be weighed in the golden scales.”

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Hawera Star, Volume LII, 28 July 1932, Page 7

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FUTURE OF INDIA Hawera Star, Volume LII, 28 July 1932, Page 7

FUTURE OF INDIA Hawera Star, Volume LII, 28 July 1932, Page 7