Arthur Berriedale Keith

Revival: A Constitutional History of India (1936) (eBook, ePUB)

1600-1935

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book, first published in 1926, provides a comprehensive description and analysis of every constitutional aspect of British rule in India from 1600 to 1936. Beginning with a description of the East India Company before Plassey, its constitution, administration of settlements, and relation to the Indian states, the book closes with an account of the reforms of the 1930s, the events leading up to the White Paper and an analysis and elucidation of the Government of India Act 1935.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 604
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351350020
• Artikelnr.: 56842556

Autorenporträt

Prof Arthur Berriedale Keith DCL DLit LLD (5 April 1879, Aberdeen - 6 October 1944) was a Scottish constitutional lawyer, scholar of Sanskrit and Indologist. He became Regius Professor of Sanskrit and Lecturer in Constitutional History in the University of Edinburgh. He served in this role from 1914 to 1944.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Company Before Plassey 2. The Diwani, the Exploitation of Bengal,
Dyarchy and Anarchy 3. The Intervention of Parliament, North's Regulating
Act and Warren Hastings 4. The Establishment of Organised Administration:
Pitt's Act and Cornwallis 5. The Supremacy of the Company in India and the
Charterr Acts of 1813-53 6. The Direct Rule of the Queen Empress and the
Golden Age of Bureaucracy 7. Political Unrest, the Minto-Morley Reforms and
the New Delhi 8. The War and Constitutional Reform, and the
Montagu-Chelsford Scheme 9. The Operation of the Reforms, the Report of the
Simon Commission and the Round Table Conference 10. Federalism and
Responsible Government Under the Government of India Act 1935 11. Dominion
Status, and the Place of India in the Commonwealth 12. The Acts of 1935 in
Operation