There are, in the committee's report, other suggestions which are even more directly the concern of the Government of India, For instance, it points out that "the Frontier Constabulary has been reduced beyond the safety Doint, if it is to be a secure shield against incursions over the administrative border," and recommends both its expansion and increased mobility The anomaly of the constabulary force's being maintained by and remaining under the exclusive control of the Government of India, although responsible for the protection of the provincial borders, did not escape the notice of the committee, but its terms of reference and the limitations imposed by the Government of India Act precluded any wider review of present arrangements, Above all other factors is the device of "political dyarchy," as the committee describes the complicated and clumsy machinery respon. sible for law and order in tribal territory. The late Congress Government was seriously dissatisfied with the laxity of control under such a system, and for reasons which the recent raids into and round Bannu plainly underline. The committee, recognizing the "great intricacy" of the problem of policy, with all the sharply divergent views which both experts and laymen hold on the subject, had properly come to the conclusion that a full investigation was possible only under the orders of the Government of India, The present moment seems opportune, in spite of the preoccupations of the war, for such an inquiry. While the Government of India and the Frontier Province Government are entitled to and will obtain public support in all measures designed to keep the tribes under restraint, there is a demand for a radical change in policy, even if it involves constitutional alterations,
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