E-1110: Constitutional safeguards to protect the European Community against legislation and/or administration of a discriminating nature: evidence of the European Association and the Associated Chambers of Commerce of India and Ceylon
Correspondence from the Incorporated Chamber of Commerce of Liverpool and the Associated Chambers of Commerce of India and Ceylon on the subject of attempts by some Indian politicians to introduce legislation in India aiming at economic discrimination against non-Indians
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Includes a copy of the amended Coastal Traffic Reservation Bill and the report of the Select Committee of the Indian Legislature which amended it
E-1144: Recruitment to the Indian Civil Service and the I C S Examination (Mr Stewart's correspondence with Mr Smith of the India Office)
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The file contains correspondence between the India Office and the Government of India, and an India Office memorandum on Indian Civil Service Recruitment. Includes a list of Indian candidates successful at the London Open Competitions for Indian Civil Service (1892-1927).
Papers regarding the Indian Army and the defence of India
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EN-1193 Suggestions for consideration regarding division of Army Defence Expenditure (22 Nov 1929); The constitutional problem in relation to the Defence of India (10 Feb 1930); SC/JS.53 The Chairman's note on the Army in India (1930); Addition to Note SC/JS.53 on the Army in India (03 Feb 1930);...
Note by the Army Department on the dual constitutional position of the Commander-In-Chief in India as Commander-In-Chief and as Member of Executive Council in Charge of the Army (Marine) Department
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The Note was given to the Commission Chairman at Delhi, March 1929. Includes an extract from a memorandum by General Lord Rawlinson, on the subject of a Civil Army Member, dated the 5th July 1923
E-Ind-1131: A memorandum submitted to the Indian Statutory Commission by the Government of India on the subject of rates of pay in new Provincial Services
File of papers regarding the relations between the Centre and the Provinces
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Includes a Note by Clement Attlee of the character of the various component parts of a possible future constitutional machine for the government of British India, their powers, and relationship each to the other, 6 July 1929