Word: viceroy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Britons and Indians performing all sorts of functions vital to the Raj. For example the District Officers, many of them Britons of fine calibre doing their best for local Indian communities but harassed by having to write interminable reports to the Centre, were given a kindly hint by the Viceroy to ease up on this scrivening and get out on more camping trips among the people. "You may count upon my steady support," said Linlithgow, sounding as if he meant it, then added with wise humor: "For you District Officers it remains abundantly true that the tent is mightier than...
...Governor General will largely determine whether it proves to be liberal or repressive, whether it promotes greater harmony than ever before by establishing an Indian Federation, or rekindles the flames of "Civil Disobedience" and attempted insurrection (TIME, March 24, 1930 et seq.). With everything dependent on the Viceroy's personal success in winning Indians to ignore the malcontents who were urging them to boycott the first election under the new Constitution and make it unworkable, the Marquess of Linlithgow was not uttering a platitude but making a particularly crucial appeal when he keynoted with Scottish straightforwardness: "Trust...
...King of Kings," but daily exercise of the prerogatives suggested by that title actually falls to just about one man on earth, the Viceroy of India. Immediately within his charge are not only the eleven provinces of British India but the 562 jealously and ornately sovereign native States, each ruled by an Indian Prince who to his subjects is in effect a king. Over these the Viceroy must reign for Edward VIII with that blameless private life and awful magnificence which British school children are taught to see in His Majesty the King & Emperor. Last week it became the function...
...gimlet-eyed Sir Akbar Hydari whose importance far eclipses his modest title of Finance and Railway Member of the State Executive Council of Hyderabad (see cut, p. 22). It was he who so stirred up the Chamber of Princes that eventually the British Raj, which when Lord Curzon was Viceroy acquired Berar from Hyderabad, was constrained to agree that Berar "has always belonged" and should now be returned to Hyderabad. Thus appeased, the Nizam of Hyderabad may well be the first 21-gun Indian potentate to sign, or foxy Sir Akbar at the last moment may advise His Exalted Highness...
...Constitution now offered India by Britain positively the country's "last chance for Democracy." In elegant and persuasive terms the speech of the Marquess of Linlithgow presented the positive and pleasant side of these ominous and negative fears. "By the joint statesmanship of Britain and India," said the Viceroy, "there is about to be initiated in this country an experiment in representative self-government which for breadth of conception and boldness of design is without parallel in history. . . . The British people and Parliament have seen fit to offer to India a Constitution which by its liberal principles stands...