PARADOXICAL as it may seem, there is a sense in which the so-called obstructionists appear to have greater faith in the Reforms than those who are anxious to make out that obstruction can under no circumstances serve any purpose. What is it that the obstructionists want? Nothing else than that the R
AN important representation has been addressed to His Excellency the Governor by twenty-six members of the Punjab Legislative Council regarding certain aspects of the Education Minister’s policy. All three actions of the Minister against which the signatories protest have been condemned in the
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IT will be remembered that the Reforms Schemes designed for all the provinces of India deliberately excluded the North West Frontier Province and British Baluchistan from its scope for the reason that the people there are very backward and have not reached that stage of general enlightenment and progress which justifies the grant of substantial power and responsibility in the local administration. But the exclusion has naturally created dissatisfaction among the educated and more enlightened people of provinces who felt and are yet feeling injustice in being deprived of the same opportunities of progress as their brethren in Punjab and other provinces with whom they have business and other relations. The successful inauguration of the Reformed Councils and the activities of the first session have only added to their sense of disappointment and we find that in their welcome address presented recently to Sir John Maffey, the new Chief Commissioner of the Frontier Province at Pesh