I can recall some cases wherein the interests of India were unduly subordinated to the demands of Party politics, for instance the counter-vailing duty imposed on certain domestic cotton manufactures to conciliate Lancashire millowners (voters) also the holding of gold reserves in England, thus making many millions of pounds sterling available to London finanders instead of to bankers in India, and causing a chronic stringency in the money markets at the commercial centres of India, These acts, however, one must admit, were not caused by a preme. ditated policy of ruthless commer-dalism, but were to a large extent the effects of ~the peculiar dual system of government, one part in England, and the other in India, the former subject to Parliament and the latter directly subordinate to it, the real power behind the throne being, not the Viceroy and Goverzor-General-in-Council in Ie
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