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Punjab Legislative Assembly (British India)
The Punjab Legislative Council was the Unicameralism, unicameral legislature of Punjab (British India), British Punjab, a province of the British Raj. It was established in 1921 by the British authorities under Government of India Act 1919, the council had nominal powers and a membership of mainly pro-British politicians and government officials. Voting was largely boycotted until the Government of India Act 1935 increased representation and the powers of the assembly. It was dissolved in 1936 and was succeeded by Punjab Provincial Assembly (British India), Punjab Provincial Assembly. The First World War gave the momentum to the growing demand for self-government in British India. Therefore, the new constitutional reforms, under the Montagu–Chelmsford Reforms were introduced by British Government. The scheme was implemented through the Government of India Act 1919. The first Council was constituted on 8 January 1921 for the first time. The election for first Council was held ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unicameralism
Unicameralism (from ''uni''- "one" + Latin ''camera'' "chamber") is a type of legislature consisting of one house or assembly that legislates and votes as one. Unicameralism has become an increasingly common type of legislature, making up nearly 60% of all national legislatures and an even greater share of subnational legislatures. Sometimes, as in New Zealand and Denmark, unicameralism comes about through the abolition of one of two bicameral chambers, or, as in Sweden, through the merger of the two chambers into a single one, while in others a second chamber has never existed from the beginning. Rationale for unicameralism and criticism The principal advantage of a unicameral system is more efficient lawmaking, as the legislative process is simpler and there is no possibility of gridlock (politics), deadlock between two chambers. Proponents of unicameralism have also argued that it reduces costs, even if the number of legislators stays the same, since there are fewer instituti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unionist Party (Punjab)
The National Unionist Party was a political party based in the Punjab Province during the period of British rule in India. The Unionist Party mainly represented the interests of the landed gentry and landlords of Punjab, which included Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs. The Unionists dominated the political scene in Punjab from World War I to the independence of India and the creation of Pakistan after the partition of the province in 1947. The party's leaders served as Prime Minister of the Punjab. The creed of the Unionist Party emphasized: "Dominion Status and a United Democratic federal constitution for India as a whole". Organisation The Unionist Party, a secular party, was formed to represent the interests of Punjab's large feudal classes and gentry. Sikandar Hayat Khan, Sir Chhotu Ram, Khizar Hayat Tiwana, Rai Ahmad Khan Kharal, Fazli Husain, Shahab-ud-Din and Muhammad Hussain Shah were all members of the party. Although a majority of Unionists were Muslims, a large numbe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Anderson (educator)
Sir George Anderson CSI CIE (15 May 1876 – 15 May 1943) was a British schoolteacher and educational administrator who spent most of his career in India. Anderson was educated at Winchester College and University College, Oxford, graduating in 1899 with honours in Modern History. He became an assistant master at a school in Eastbourne, but in 1903 joined the Transvaal Education Department. Transferring to India, he was successively Professor of History at Elphinstone College, Bombay, Assistant Secretary of the Indian Education Department, Secretary to the Calcutta University Commission, Director of Public Instruction of the Punjab (from 1920), and Educational Commissioner of the Government of India. He retired in 1936. He was appointed Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE) in the 1920 New Year Honours, was knighted in the 1924 New Year Honours, and appointed Companion of the Order of the Star of India (CSI) in 1932. Anderson wrote several books, including '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Members Of Second Punjab Legislative Council
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Mian Muhammad Shahnawaz
Mian Sir Muhammad Shah Nawaz was a prominent politician of Punjab in the 1920s. He was married to Begum Jahanara Shahnawaz daughter of Mian Muhammad Shafi. Retrieved 17 January 2019 He was born in the Arain
Arain (also known as Raeen) are a large Punjabi Muslim agricultural community with a strong political identity and level of organisation.
At the beginning of the last century, they numbered around 1 million and were mainly rural cultivator ... Mian family of Baghbanpura. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chhotu Ram
Ram Richpal Ohlyan (born 24 November 1881 – 9 January 1945), better known as Sir Chhotu Ram, was a prominent Indian politician, agrarian reformer, and ideologue in Presidencies and provinces of British India, British India's Punjab Province (British India), Punjab Province. He was known for his advocacy for the rights of farmers and oppressed rural communities. A co-founder of the Unionist Party (Punjab), National Unionist Party, he played a pivotal role in shaping agrarian policies that protected peasants from exploitative moneylenders and promoted agricultural development in pre-independent India. Chhotu Ram is popularly known as "''Deenbandhu''", "''Rahbar-e-Azam''" and "''Kisano ke Maseeha''", as he championed a Secularity, secular, cross-communal alliance of Hindus, Hindu, Muslims, Muslim, and Sikhs, Sikh agriculturists, countering the rising influence of the Indian National Congress and Muslim League (Opposition), Muslim League in Punjab. His legislative reforms, includi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feroz Khan Noon
Sir Malik Feroz Khan Noon (7 May 18939 December 1970) , best known as Feroze Khan, was a Pakistani politician who served as the seventh prime minister of Pakistan from 16 December 1957, until being removed when the President Iskandar Ali Mirza imposed martial law, though he himself got ousted in the 1958 Pakistani military coup. Trained as a barrister in England, Noon served as High Commissioner of India to the United Kingdom before serving as a military adviser, over issues pertaining to the British Indian Army, to Prime Minister Winston Churchill's Churchill war ministry, war ministry from the India Office. Noon was one of the Founding Fathers of Pakistan who helped to negotiate and establish the Dominion of Pakistan, Federation of Pakistan as a nation-state on 14 August 1947, resulting from the successful Pakistan Movement, constitutional movement led by Muhammad Ali Jinnah. Early life and education Feroz Khan Noon was born in the village of Hamoka, located i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sundar Singh Majithia
Sardar Bahadur Sir Sundar Singh Majithia (17 February 1872 – 2 April 1941) was a Punjabi landowner and politician. Biography He was born to an aristocratic Sher-Gill Jat Sikh family, the son of Raja Surat Singh of Majitha. He was educated at Aitchison College, and Government College, in Lahore. In 1909 he established Saraya Sugar Mills. One of the largest landowners in the Punjab, he was also honorary secretary of the Chief Khalsa Diwan, the representative body of the Sikh community in British India, from its formation in 1902 until 1920. He was a supporter of British rule in India, opposed to the activities of the Ghadar Party and served on various bodies appointed by the Viceroy. He was appointed Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE) in the 1920 New Year Honours and was knighted in 1926. He served as Revenue Member at the first and second legislative councils of the Punjab Legislative Assembly in 1921 and 1926. Following the Unionist victory in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sikandar Hayat Khan (Punjabi Politician)
''Khan Bahadur'' Major Sir Sikandar Hayat Khan, (5 June 1892 – 26 December 1942), also written Sikandar Hyat-Khan or Sikandar Hyat Khan, was an Indian politician and statesman from the Punjab Province (British India), Punjab who served as the Premier of the Punjab, among other positions. Early life Sikandar Hayat Khan was born in Multan, Punjab Province (British India), Punjab, British Raj in a Punjabi family of the Khattar tribe . His father was Nawab Muhammad Hayat Khan, a civil servant and close associate of Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, and his grandfather was Sardar Karam Khan, who died in battle fighting for the British Empire, British against the Sikh Empire, Sikhs in the Second Anglo-Sikh War. He was educated at Oriental Collegiate High School in Aligarh and later at Aligarh Muslim University, and was sent to study medicine at King's College London in the United Kingdom but was recalled home by his family circa 1915. During the First World War, he initially worked as a War ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fazl-i-Hussain
Sir Fazli Hussain, KCSI (14 June 1877 – 9 July 1936) was an influential politician during the British Raj and a founding member of the Unionist Party of the Punjab. Early life and education Husain was born in Peshawar to a Bhatti Rajput family of Punjabi origins hailing from Gurdaspur in 1877. His Rajput ancestors moved to Punjab from Bikaner and Jaisalmer in modern-day Rajasthan around the year 1500, having converted to Islam and entered the civil administration and the military forces of the Mughal Empire from Babur onward. His father Mian Husain Bakhsh was at the time serving as Extra Assistant Commissioner in Peshawar. At the age of sixteen he entered Government College, Lahore and graduated with a BA in 1897.Azim Husain, Fazl i Husain A Political Biography, Longmans, Green & Company, 1946 In 1896, he married Muhammad Nisa, great-granddaughter of Ilahi Bakhsh, the renowned general of the Sikh Khalsa Army. Fazl-i-Husain travelled to Britain in 1898 to further his educa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Members Of First Punjab Legislative Council
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Manohar Lal (economist)
Sir Manohar Lal (31 December 1871 – 1 May 1949) was an economist, lawyer and politician during the British Raj. Biography Lal was born into a Hindu Baniya family in Fazilka, Punjab. He was schooled in Fazilka and Ferozepur before reading English at Forman Christian College where he achieved a first.Krishnamurty, J. "Manohar Lal: Scholar, Economist and Statesman." Modern Asian Studies, vol. 44, no. 3, 2010, pp. 641–662 He subsequently won a scholarship to St John's College, Cambridge. At Cambridge he became the first Indian to secure a first in the Moral Sciences Tripos, studying economics under Alfred Marshall.Krishnamurty, J. "Manohar Lal: Scholar, Economist and Statesman." Modern Asian Studies, vol. 44, no. 3, 2010, pp. 641–662 In 1904 he was awarded the prestigious Cobden Prize ahead of D. H. MacGregor and later that year he was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn.Krishnamurty, J. "Manohar Lal: Scholar, Economist and Statesman." Modern Asian Studies, vol. 44, no. 3, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
