The Future Government of India (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Future Government of IndiaResponsible Government occurring in the statement made by Mr. Montagu in Parliament has been virtually interpreted in one quarter to mean Government for the first time and liberty to go back upon what has already acquired a constitutional value. On the other hand, we have, at present, to effect not even a constitutional change, but only to furnish a transitional pathway for a constitutional change. From one point of view all enduring changes are in fact no more than transitional changes. The best of constitutional histories is no more than a series of transitions, with periods of violent distemper which have only served to bring into greater relief the in herent superiority of timely transitions. This is so, because growth is transition. Forgetting so essential a fact, to deduce from the term Responsible Govern ment a series of abstract propositions and to proceed to construct a scheme based on them is to convert a process of growth into a process of pulling down and putting up. Far from following such a plan, what is attempted in the following pages is to take up the mechanism as it is and to bring out its inherent potentialities, leaving it at the same time responsive to necessary changes in the near future. In this respect the method will be found a thorough contrast to the scheme drafted in Calcutta by a joint body of Europeans and Indians, an outcome of the well - mean ing but totally ill equipped efforts of Mr. Lionel Curtis, who seems to believe in all earnestness that the Indian constitution is a fit pastime for holiday constitution-makers of the Empire, whose acquaint anoe with Indian conditions begins with their attempt to draft a new constitution for the country.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.