Show INDIA AND ITS PEOPLES by cop capt L R claud robinson british Go government verri ment of 0 india WHEN were UEN the administrative row of th vust india com company pallY viere transferred to the crown la in 1 it was va prodded that india A should d be e pi verned in london by a secretary of state assisted by a 1 co couell untIl and in gislla ila bw A governor general or viceroy assisted by a email small cabinet cf tho the 1 were or ionized on the tile same lines this fistea continued until chu lord LON N clorley orley as a secretary of state ate in to fo london lidon and lord manto the vik viceroy eroy agreed upon givins india ladle a measure of representative senta tive this title was provided for or by a piece of gifun known be its the indian council act AM the sid advance vAnce made by thi act ae lay y in increasing loci engine the size lie of the councils the additional member members sere ere nominated by representative senta tire tive indian bodle bodies such ai as chamber chambers of commerce universities and anti eo so forth so ate a to secure rep rel of differ differed ezit classes it Api appears ears however that the powers of the councils were limited to dis custom and recommendations which the goern government goe nimen ment wai was not bound to accept thi this system seemed to work well and the give eat sat I 1 later ater however cadle ag and 4 demona for home rule rula ikall 1 ly by lire bits besent and mr fallk a labor member of tiie cie bouse house of commons the next step was a report in 1018 1918 by lit Alon montagu Montu tegu gu secretary of state for india and I 1 lord ord chelas ford trip viceroy in aich proposals were made for a bev u conati tu aution tion these became become the basis of tho th of india act of 1010 roughly llo 1 scheme en franchised five millions of the in dinn than population on a property location these elect a large proportion of the central and provin caal legislatures legIsa tures the size of which has been much increased the electors ilio also appoint a new cen aral council of state which is real ly the upper house corresponding correspond int to the senate of the united states and the houie of lords in en england gl an d the remaining members of all nit these bodies are nominated by the which ie it irremovable but of course the elected members are la in a majority in im the provinces the functions of 0 the legislatures have been divided into two tate categories gorles the elected members that la Is those entirely in dian deal with such subject subjects ai as education and public health while the nominated members en english g if s h and indian control the police th the administration of ot justice sad and scell ma mutters tiers the british government of e each ach r lovince ance Is the keystone cl et these somewhat complicated ar tit range ments the viceroy has powers of veto aej legislation far exceeding those of the I 1 resident of the united states when deemed necessary for public safety contemporaneously with these great changes local self sell government was established and the civil service by raising the proportion of indiana to neatly near 50 per cent all these arrangements came up tr for recotr sIde sider atlon rallon recently by the simon commission A hindu festival THE Till HE treat great spring festival of tt 0 hindus udus Is known as the alolf and AN Is celeb celebrated doted in varying form all over india A feature of the ob sers penance nce which attracts the onlooker li 13 the indiscriminate throwing of red powder poder and the squirt ing frig frum froin y rinses of oi P rod r significant of the he blood of hindi martyrs of the past for day after offer the celebration men are tire seen going about with their white clothes still stained with patches of scarlet I 1 witnessed this festival in purl in the province of orissa lare numbers of pilgrims grIms cane into ucb abb town for fo the bent andini street streets were throng thronald ld with a holiday crowd belt flitch indi reve reverence rents and adril res 3 th the s chief motive of those vinse who take an attivo part to the proceedings at one putni point is a man with little to cover bli nakedness beyond a coat ing of wood ash smeared all over his body bod standing motionless upside down ills ill whole weight rest on bis his bead head and elbows ills less fen are crossed cro cros ael seI in the air and a relentless lent less sun un beats beets down upon hlo him I 1 learned that he had been in thi this position for three hour hours further along another nn alan reposed upon a bed of spike spikes lie ile bad had been lying thus in the sun for four hour but the roost most popular practice seemed to be that met of being buried alive allm on of waste land along the road were row rows of human arms and legs 1 thee marked the graves rave of living or those who am ar barc treading abing ading the path of knowledge the idea apparently ap parenti being to illustrate the effectiveness effect I 1 venes of a system of berthing birthing bir thing which Is I 1 a part of the training of allebe men a training which it Is I 1 claimed inda by ri thing ing a inn men com ii pete I 1 ete control over all the function of his body I 1 took hold of a pair of protruding arms and the owner willingly allowed himself to ie to r rosed ased from his temporary VIM ke stated be b had been buried for in itin hocur in to ito these lne bashuk there were numars u of ordinary bears among them the maimed nd and me ine nina their physical imperfection imperfections for or the exciting the compas of the passerby passer by ha A if tit it V esters News pLou won Ial cn |