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Q26) Butler Committee (1927) was appointed to
Q26) Butler Committee (1927) was appointed to
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The correct option is B b) Examine the relations between the Princely States and the British Crown
Ans (b)
In 1927, the people of Princely States formed the State People’s Conference with a view to introducing self-governing institutions. This move by the people threatened the interests of the Princes who sought the help of British. Hence, Butler Committee (Indian States Committee) was appointed in Dec 1927 to look into the financial and economic relationships existing between British Crown and Princely States. It was a 3 member committee headed by Harcourt Butler. It reviewed the question of Paramountcy. It laid stress on the preservation of Princely States through the British Paramountcy. Nehru Committee criticised the appointment of Butler Committee and stated that the rights and obligations of Paramountcy should be transferred to the government of Commonwealth of India and conflicts between Commonwealth of India and Indian States were to be referred to the Supreme Court. It’s recommendations were
Paramountcy would not be transferred without the consent of the States to any democratically elected Indian government in British India responsible to an Indian legislature
It reaffirmed the supremacy of paramountcy with unlimited power (even to suggest constitutional reforms in a particular state if there was widespread demand for such reforms). The committee reasserted that ‘Paramountcy must remain paramount’. The paramountcy to be exercised by the Viceroy and not by the Governor General-in-Council. This was to remove the relations of the Princes with a possible Congress dominated central government
But paramountcy was left undefined
Thus, pushed to a tight corner from both ends (British as well as nationalists), the Princes started taking interest in politics and showed interest in the concept of federation as was proposed in the Nehru Report of 1928
Ans (b)
In 1927, the people of Princely States formed the State People’s Conference with a view to introducing self-governing institutions. This move by the people threatened the interests of the Princes who sought the help of British. Hence, Butler Committee (Indian States Committee) was appointed in Dec 1927 to look into the financial and economic relationships existing between British Crown and Princely States. It was a 3 member committee headed by Harcourt Butler. It reviewed the question of Paramountcy. It laid stress on the preservation of Princely States through the British Paramountcy. Nehru Committee criticised the appointment of Butler Committee and stated that the rights and obligations of Paramountcy should be transferred to the government of Commonwealth of India and conflicts between Commonwealth of India and Indian States were to be referred to the Supreme Court. It’s recommendations were
Paramountcy would not be transferred without the consent of the States to any democratically elected Indian government in British India responsible to an Indian legislature
It reaffirmed the supremacy of paramountcy with unlimited power (even to suggest constitutional reforms in a particular state if there was widespread demand for such reforms). The committee reasserted that ‘Paramountcy must remain paramount’. The paramountcy to be exercised by the Viceroy and not by the Governor General-in-Council. This was to remove the relations of the Princes with a possible Congress dominated central government
But paramountcy was left undefined
Thus, pushed to a tight corner from both ends (British as well as nationalists), the Princes started taking interest in politics and showed interest in the concept of federation as was proposed in the Nehru Report of 1928
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