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Statement of Maharaja Hari
Singh on Butler Committee
Legal Document No
46
(Extract)
They (Princes) had imagined a committee different alike in composition
and functions from that which ultimately materalised. It was expected that
round a nucleus of English statesmen of reputation, there would be grouped
representatives of the Government of India, of British India and of the
Indian States together with financial, constitutional and political experts.
Two things Inhere uppermost in their minds; firstly, they had become painfully
conscious that what was called political practice whittled away rights,
which they believed to have been safeguarded by treaties: secondly, they
found their position was one of considerable uncertainty, not merely in
regard to their future relations with a self governing British India, but
also in regard to their present relation with the Government of India.
They were anxious to find out precisely where they stood, where their rights
began and those of the Paramount power ended so that they might take stock
of the part they were called upon to play in greater India which they saw
shaping before their eyes, but the Committee from the very nature of its
personnel and restricted lines of reference could not conduct an examination
satisfactorily. The Committee by its own admission was not a judicial tribunal.
This was conclusive evidence that the State could not receive at its hands
that kind of award which was their principal reason for asking for an enquiry
at all."
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