United Provinces’ Politics, 1936-1937: Formation of the Ministries and Start of Congress Government: Governors’ Fortnightly Reports and Other Key Documents

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This is the first volume in a series which provides the texts of the fortnightly reports sent by the Governors of the United Provinces to the Viceroy. Other key documents sent by the Governors or their Secretaries are also included. There are 151 items in total. The subject of this volume is the start of Ministerial Government in the U.P. Congress, which won a resounding victory in elections held early in 1937, did not immediately take office because of a dispute over the use of the Governor’s special powers. Instead a minority ministry led by the Nawab of Chhatari was sworn in and held office for more than three months. This period is fully covered in the documents printed here. By July, Congress had decided to form a ministry under the leadership of Pandit G.B. Pant. The volume concludes by recording in detail the somewhat troubled first months of Congress rule in the U.P.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Lionel Carter

Lionel Carter is a graduate of the London School of Economics and was awarded a doctorate by Cambridge University having been supervised by Sir Harry Hinsley. For more than ten years, Lionel Carter was a member of the team (led by Nicholas Mansergh) which produced the British Government's series of Documents on the Transfer of Power to India, 1942-47.  From 1980 until 1999, Carter served as Secretary and Librarian of the Centre of South Asian Studies at the University of Cambridge.  Carter has published four volumes with Manohar: Chronicles of British Business in Asia, 1850-1960 (2002); Mountbatten's Report on the Last Viceroyalty (2003); and two earlier volumes of Governors’ reports: Punjab Politics, 1936-1939: the Start of Provincial Autonomy (2004) and Punjab Politics 1940-1943: Strains of War (2005).

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United Provinces’ Politics, 1936-1937: Formation of the Ministries and Start of Congress Government: Governors’ Fortnightly Reports and Other Key Documents
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1st ed.
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8173047901
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418p.
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