We now had the task, Lord Zetland continued, of preparing, in the con?
tution! sphere, a dwelling place for the new consciousness of nationhood which was stirring the peoples of India. We had to bring, beneath the dome of a single political edifice. the new democracies of British India and ike ancient "autocracies of Indian slates.
In view of current criticisms, he hoped that room might be found, within the framework of the Act of 1935, to accommodate the reasonable requirements of both. He could understand the views of those who would represent provinces in the federation as a result of elections that some element of popular choice, as distinct from nomination, should enter into the selection of states representatives. That was for the Princes themselves to decide. There was noilling in the Act to prevent it, nor would paramount power be found standing in the way of any Prince who sought to temper the rigid aumocracy of bygone days with a more L: beral system.
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