द इण्डियन स्ट्रगल / भारतीय स्वाधीनता संग्राम (नेताजी सुभाष चन्द्र बोस - ऐतिहासिक विश्लेषण)

24 THE INDIAN STRUGGLE
Council, administering 'reserved' departments. In the
Central Government there was to be no dyarchy. All the
departments would be administered by members of the
Executive Council of the. Governor-General, who would be
appointed by His Majesty's Government and who would be
independent of the vote of the Central Legislatures—the
Lower House, called the Indian Legislative Assembly and
the Upper House, called the Council of State. The Central
Legislatures were to be composed only of representatives
from British India and the Indian States ruled by Indian
Princes were to be independent of the Central Government
with regard to their internal administration, subject to the
provisions of the treaties made between them and the British
Government. The inadequacy of these reforms, the atrocities
committed by the armed forces of the Crown in the Punjab
in 1919 and the attempt of the Allied Powers to dismember
Turkey—set in motion a powerful movement in India in
1920 under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi. But in spite
of the unprecedented awakening in the country no further
political advance was made by the British Government. The
Government of India Act, 1919, contained a provision for the
appointment of a Royal Commission, ten years later, that is
in 1929, with the object of determining what further advance,
if any, should be made in the direction of self-government.
In accordance with this provision a Royal Commission was
appointed in 1927 under the chairmanship of Sir John Simon.
The Commission reported in 1930. Thereafter a Round
Table Conference of British and Indian representatives,
nominated by the British Government, was convened for
threshing out the details of the New Constitution. After three
sessions of the Round Table Conference, the Government
came forward with their own proposals regarding the new
Constitution. These proposals were published in March,
1933, in a White Paper. The White Paper was duly placed
for consideration before a Joint Committee of both Houses
of the British Parliament.¹
¹ The Report of the Joint Parliamentary Committee has been published
on November 22nd, 1934. Even the meagre proposals of the White
Paper have been further whittled down by the Joint Committee.