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IN preparing this summary of the provisions of the Government of India Act, 1935, the authors, of whom one is an ex-judge of the High Court of Judicature, Madras, have shown a full appreciation of the importance of the historical point of view. They indicate how, in its main provisions, the act represents a logical development of a policy, which has been followed, slowly, but on the whole consistently, over a long period of time the policy of introducing Western representative institutions into India. To grasp this is an essential condition of an understanding of the present position and of the conditions which have preceded it. Hence in each section of their exposition of the terms of the act, as for example in regard to the Crown, the States, federation, provincial autonomy and like matters, the way for examination of the relevant provisions is prepared by brief, but lucid, summaries of the essentials of earlier development.
India's New Constitution:
a Survey of the Government of India Act 1935. By J. P. Eddy and F. H. Lawton. Pp. xi + 239. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1935.) 6s. net.
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India's New Constitution. Nature 137, 515 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137515c0
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