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Position and Problems
From Paramountcy to Nation Partnership
Mergers in Provinces
The New Unions
Consolidation
Maps
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Saurashtra
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·T. POSITION AND PROBLEMS pofl al THIS (OUVIR} lag of 11 a Iul 10 bi! all al k tle of it and / 11111 to 11 Istol of blola i el g? 1 12 6 ! 1 1 nalel at a 1 Ith to 11 28 I liat mfa all ba -S4804 BIT Os an average one out of four Indians lives in the States A look at the map of India will show the close juxtaposition of the States and Indian territory Ka hmir lies in the extreme north and extends to the Pamirs on one side and to Tibet on the other and touches the Punjab on the Indian side At the southern tip of the Peninsula are situated Travancore and Cochin A little abose les Mysore On the tableland of the Deccan stretches 1 Hyderabad linking North India with the South It is bounded by Madras Bombay and the Central Provinces In the east the disjointed states of what *as called the Eastern States Agency are interspersel with Indian terri In the west there are Baroda hathiawar and Gujerat the south west holhapur an. Spread over a pre Gialior Bh ·delkhand an! Birbel und Sizies sur sundeli in lunt ftilor on Il sules ht í Parlali Nabha lind thuth! irc surrounde 1 Il nyib Rescun ( nilahitin # Vic war la Ur Bikinci 1 11) shc 777 * In 1 1 ubus of the leninsuli he link futh almost llxlcl tcrrit TICS with Indra necessary as well as roftal lc They cover an arer of 645 000 54 miles as aguinst the 631 000 sq miles of the Provinces It is generally estimated that the Statcs cnjoying, full powers und the non jurisdictional taluhas ind thanas together number 584 They vary widely in size population revenue and lencl of internal idministration Their į pulation is about gi million while the pulation of the Indian Dominion is row_hly 318 million Thus w hcrcis the States occurs 505 of Indian territory theu propi comprise -38, of the Indian population The States range from Hyderabad sath ipulation of 161 million and an innuil rescue of 100 million rupees 10 Hubun with a population of -7 and an innuil rcscnuc of 8o ruxes of the 8, hathawar States excluding the nine richer States of Bwanagar Cutch Dharangudhra Condal Junagarh lloni the in tinuous down tha Licin his 3 TH re Indepen no riport islınds with ni thungs fine natuTC U perill PARK ·their separate as separate political entities In a free India existence thought to be politically undesirable and economically impracticable There was no alternative for these tiny states and estates but to merge with the neigh bouring areas was Navangar and Porbandar 274 States had a total revenue of about 135 lakh of rupees This sum had to maintain -74 ruling families and was expected to run 274 separate semi independent administrations The total area of these 283 States is about 32 000 sq miles and their total population four million This provides the people of Kathiawar (ex cluding the larger states) with separate state for every 25 square miles or every 500 heads of population Furthermore if the revenues of some 171 of these smaller states are added up they amount to Rs 650 000 with an average of Rs 3813 as the annual revenue for each state This meagre sum is supposed to meet the expenses of administration and other necessary func tions of the state one In 1931 Lord Irwin as Viceroy of India in a confidential memorandum urged the Princes to put their houses in order and maintain a certain minimum standard of administration In 1939 at the Ludhiana Session of the States Peoples Conference a resolution was passed recommending the merger of small States with adjacent provinces and the union of other States into one large administrative unit The resolution runs as follows Even before India became free there was a strong feeling in the country that these small states and estates were a relic of feudal days and ought to be abolished It is the considered opinion of the Conference that only those States which have a population exceeding two millions of souls or revenue exceeding five million rupees can maintain the standard of Porn ti ·their resources so as to discharge their obligations as modern States In 1939 the Political Department issued a circular asking all States with an annual revenue of less than two millions to form regional confederations In reply to this the Princes submitted a memorandum in which they insisted that grouping of States should be voluntary and that no conditions or restrictions should be imposed regarding the main tenance of police forces or the adminis trition of justice They were above all keen on maintaining unaltered the rights of the grouped states vis a vis each other By far the most important develop ment affecting the Princely Order took place in 1946 when a merger scheme was proposed by the Crown Represent itive . purpose of administration necessary and suitable for being workable units for the uniting with the provinces in a scheme of a free and federated India and there fore all States not coming within the above category should be amalgamated either singly or by groups with the neighbouring provinces for the purpose of administration with suitable provisions for the reasonable rights and privileges of the rulers concerned and this Con ference therefore requests the National Congress to appoint a Committee of Inquiry for the purpose of finding ways and means to facilitate such amal gamation Later still Lurd Linlithgow openly exhorted the Princes on the same lines and pressed the smaller States to pool ·1 101d PL P nities Lord Wavell under which maller States were to be integrated with the neigh bouring bigger ones with which they had geographical economic and political affi The bigger States were apprised of the details of the scheme and so also the units to be attached These collec tively covered an area of over 7000 sq miles with a population of over 800 000 and an annual revenue of more than seven million rupees estates or talukas do actually fall within the category of Indian States Owing to the slenderness of their individual re sources and general aversion to neigh bourly co-operation there has arisen in this part of India geographical admı ni trative and economic fragmentation on 2 scale unknown anywhere else in the country In the great majority of these units the revenue which often has to be divided among numerous shareholders barely suffices for the private needs of the falukdars and shareholders and the amenities provided for their subjects under the supervision of the local poli tical authoritie therefore sadly circumscnbed In short the survey of the Crown Representative has fully established that without some drastic simplı fication of existing arrangements any kind of co-ordinated development of country ide or any form of real is impossible The communique announcing this said are HE The Crown Representative has for a long period had under intensive review the perplexing political and admi nistrative problems which arise from the existence in Western India and Gujerat though they are usually referred to as of literally hundreds of small units which emi jurisdictional or non jurisdictiona) ·d SIS provide hospitals schools roads and othe amchities where these were beyond the capacity of the local resources The communiquc also refers to the pcdiscussion of the problem in the period preceding the 1935 Act and says that the Maharaja of Baroda to whom many of the small units in Western India and Gujerat were tributary put forward pro posals to bring these tributaries into closer rclation with thc Baroda State Later a fresh approach to the problem was made on 1 wider basis with a view to affording the other larger states an opportuniti of assuming similar respon sibilities in respect of units which had fcographical cconomic and political nfinities with them The ultimate tet of fitness for the survival of any Statc in Lord Wivells opinion was the capacity to secure thic Welfare of its subjects and he regarded the proposed merger of these small states as a suitable solution Experience had shown that the units with which he was concerned not only when unaided but cven when grouped together as thanas or under the close supervision of Political Agents were unable to achieve the con ditions of administrative efficiency which alone could justify the perpetuation of any form of hereditary rule The assumption of direct responsibility for the necessary reforms by the Para mount Power was regarded by the Crown Ropresentatie as bucciuse [cographical and other factors The states to sluch these small units were to be attached were required to admit the inhabitants of atti lied arcas to the bencfits of administratisc amini ties such as secondary and technical cducation and medical treatment on the samc terms as their own siliccts and to impractical's ·2 precluded the absorption of these areas into British India and further because the Political Department was neither an administrative organization nor equipped with the requisite machinery and finan cial resources to look after the adminis tration of these units Moreover the areas concerned were so scattered and fragmented as to make it impossible to bring them under unified central control These difficulties could in the Crown Representatives opinion only be over come by the course on which he had decided delegation of responsibility to those who were in the best position to discharge it namely the bigger States of Western India and ujerat As it happened this grouping of the 1939 at smaller with larger States prosed un happy and unsucce ful Not that such plan of mergers and unions was not urgently needed or desired by the people but the way it was imposed on them proied irksome to both In fact the All India States Peoples Conference reaffirmed its resolution of Udaipur in 1946 and again at Gualior in 1947 recommending the merger of small States with neighbouring larger ones or with adjacent provinces Sardar Patel had thus the support both of the Congress and the States Peoples Conference for the scheme of mergers which he has put into effect after the transfer of pou er JA 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·LAM Y ma Edf r1 icy . FROM PARAMOUNTCY TO NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP 8 TI I ack ul dg 11 e lyd uilli g 1 lp Ich the Rul h me 12 i npl m nti gti policy of integr tion and d mocr tts to in ol ed on t1 :pionsdr ble sacrifice and self le ual Fo I am ot & tefil -SARDAR I ALLABIL HAI PATEL He main TAKING charge of the States Department Sardar Patel reminded the rulers of the Indian States of the lesson of history that it was owing to India s politically frag mented condition and the consequent in ability of Indians to make a united stand that the country had succumbed to succes sive waves of invaders Our mutual conflicts said the Sardar and inter necine quarrels and jealousy have in the past been the cause of our downfall and of our falling victims to foreign domina tion a number of times He emphasized that India could not afford to fall into those errors and pitfalls again tained that despite the partition of India a fundamental homogeneity of culture and sentiments reinforced by the com pulsive logic of mutual interest would continu to govern us Much more would this be the case with that vast majority of the States which owing to their geographical contiguity and in dissoluble ties economic and cultural must continue to maintain relations of mutual friendship and co-operation with the rest of India The safety and pre servation of these States as well a ·demind unity and mutual co operation between the different parts It would be most unfair to the States were the Goxcrnment of India to leave them in the vacuum created by the withdrawal of British power Speak in, in the Constituent Assembly (Lcgis Itc) on December 9 1947 the Deputy Prime Vinister said I want again to make it clear that there is no intention on our part to assumc paramountcy in any form or shape or torrhe the place of paramounty Jaramountcy is dicad and gonc and nobody laments or mourns There is no reason however to think that becausc paramounic, has des appeared there is going to be no power The Government of India proposcs to function as a scroment and will not Icare a vacuum narchy in any part of India what is happens That must be understood irls because it is neither in the interests f the States nor of the Statcs pcoplc nos f Indu Farlier in a statement on July 5 1947 Sardar Patel had observed Now that the British rule is ending the demand has been made that the States should regain their independence In so fir is British paramountcy embodied the sub mission of the States to forcign will I have cery sympathy with this demand but I do not think it can be their desire to utilize this freedom from domination in a manner which is injurious to the common interest of Indın or which militates against the ultimate para mountcy of popular interests and wel fare or which results in the abandonment of the mutually useful relationship that has des cloped between British India and the Indian States during the last century This has been amply demonstrated by the fact that a great majority of the Indian States have already come into the Constituent Assembly To those who have not done so I say that thcy should The States have already accepted the basic principles that for it in India וסת מוסן ·defence foreign affairs and communica tions they would come into the Indian Union We ask no more of them than accession on these three subjects in which the common interests of the country are involved In other matters we would scrupulously respect their autonomou existence This policy of Sardar Patel as head of the States Ministry was quite consistent with the avowed attitude of the Congres which had fought for over sixty years for the liberation of India It was pledged to liberate the Indian States as well a the Indian Provinces To clarify thi attitude Sadar Patel observed There appears a great deal of misunderstanding about the attitude of the Congress towards the States I should like to make it clear that it is not the desire of the Congress to interfere in any manner whatever with the domestic affairs of the States. They are no enemies of the Princely Order but on the other hand wish them and their people under their aegis all prosperity contentment and happiness Nor would it be my policy to conduct th relations of the new department with the States in any manner which savours of the domination of the one over the other If there would be any domination it would be that of mutual interest and welfare We have no ulterior motive or selfish interests to serve Our common objective should be to understand each other s point of view and come to decisions acceptable to all and in the best interests of the country With this object I propose to explore the possibility of associating with the admi nistration of the new department a Standing Committee representative of both the States and British India This E IC who

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·F7" Il was a clear exposition of the policy of the Government towards the States pompously called Sovereign Indepen dence and their Rulers had wisely decided to throw in their lot with the Indian Union They realized also that their ancient and traditional forms of government would have to be radically changed to meet the peoples demand which had grown during the last fifteen years into a strong torrent threatening the existence of autocratic rule Most of the States themselves were not slow to realize the need for a new and rational relationship between them selves and the Indian Union They hoped as did the Indian Union that a new relationship would obviate the vacuum which Otherwise would neces sarily arise on the lapse of paramountcy Even before the transfer of power took place on August 15 1947 some 400 States including Mysore Cochin Udai pur Jaipur Patiala Gwalior and Baroda had realized that they could not and should not exist in the dangerous void sosy Sardar Concluding his statement Patel said We are at 1 stage n the history of Ir endeavour we can a new greatness! expose us to f ·Indian States will bear in mind that the alternative to co-operation in the general interests is anarchy and chaos which will overwhelm great and small in a common ruin if we are unable to act together in the minimum of common tasks - The people It is significant that on the same day (July 5 1947) the Jam Saheb of Nawa nagar expressed similar ideas when at a meeting of the Confederacy of kathiawar States in Bombay he said We arc Indians first and then princes Verily if India is free the Princes are free If India is safe the Princes are safe If India is prosperous the State arc prosperous If India is honoured cicry unit is honoured But if India is threatened what hope have the States If India goes under who survives? Rulers of the states had the foresight to recognize the challenge which this event symbolized The States People s More ment had grown not only in numbers but also in consciousness As Dr Pattabhi Sitaramayya pointed out in his Presi dential Address in 1947 at the Gwalior Session of the All India States Peoples Conference consciousness raises hopes and hopes inspire action the states had not only grown conscious of their political rights and of the dis abilities under which they suffered but this consciousness had spurred them to action The Rulers could see that the dawn of freedom for India demanded a radical change in the government of their respectre States Many factors mainly the imperialist hold on India for a century and a half inevitably divided the country into two fragments British India and Indian India This division proved disastrous for the millions who by accident lived in the Indian States It was an irony that this backward part of India was called Indian India Therefore it was rc The Rulers saw that the formula evol cd by Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel for the accession of the states to India pro vided just the kind of relief they wanted while allowing them the substance of their ancestral privileges Free India had been born on August 15 1917 The ·freshing to find more and more Rulers realizing that there was nothing dero gatory or undignified in national part nership with free India In fact some of the rulers frankly admitted that under the shadow of British paramountc, they had b en as good as slaves The truth is that overeignty is vested in the ruler to defend the sovereignty of the people and to ensure liberty justice peace and progress for the toiling masses who alone make sovereignty possible as the earth 1

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·States kathiawar was a jigsast puzzle of differing jurisdictions There were thus 13 salute* States 107 semi jurisdic tional States and 329 non jurisdictional States making a total of 449 units The administration was complicated by the fact that in many instances its jurisdic tion was spread over widely separated The salute States of Nawanagar Gondal and Junagarh for instance had respectively 9 18 and 24 eparate islands of territory Taken together 449 units divided the map of hathawar into some 860 different areas areas charges levied by the different units rendered internal trade difficult This encouraged extensive smuggling and black marketing The administration of justice and maintenance of law and order were necessarily handicapped The economic development of the region with its great potentialities was hamper ed by its political fragmentation This confusion was harmful both to the rulers and to the people The former Political Department attempted to solve the problem in its own way Smaller units were attached to larger ones but this attempt proved unsatis factory The process of amalgamation came to an end with the lapse of para mountcy the e Since the jurisdiction changed cvery few miles no one was responsible for communications and therefore they were in a deplorable condition The export and import duties and the octroi (11) A 1 S 1 It f9 1t On January. -9 1948 in 1 statement on the consolidation of the States Sardar Patel said Since I took charge of the IS 1 hd b fr gu CI [m in TEM r NI

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·in the region States Department the unification of hathiau ar has been one of the major tasks to which I have devoted myself In the altered circumstances the Rulers of the hathiawar States have fully recog nised the difficulties in continuing the present system and I am glad to announce that it has now been possible to work out a scheme and get the agree ment of the States to it by which the whole of the Kathiawar region will be integrated into a new State of hathiawar as a single bloc of territory There will be no separate State or rhana boundary and the whole area wll be served by one Government I have called you here to explain this but in the first place I must pay my tribute to the Rulers for their patriotic co-operation which made chis task so easy of achievement are members of the Presidium in their own right One member is elected from amongst them selves by the Rulers of the covenanting non salute States The other members are elected by the members of the Council of Rulers consisting of the Rulers of the salute States other than Nawanagar and Bhavnagar two The Council of Rulers elects one member of the Presidium to be the President or the Rajpramukh and another to be the Vice President or Uparajpramukh of the Presidium The first clections have already taken place and the Jam Saheb of Nawanagar who played a notable part in bringing these n gotiations to a successful conclusion has been elected Rajpramukh with the Maharaja of Bhavnagar* as Uparaj pramukh The term of office of the Rajpramukh and the Uparajpramukh is The new State of Kathianar is known as the United States of Saurashtra There is a Presidium of Rulers consist ing of five members to be chosen from the rulers of the covenanting States The Rulers of Nawanagar and Bhav nagar the ti o most important States five years Th PP Vh dG ) m { Bh vn gah Md en ly been 5 AVA ·የ !! 1 11 There will be a Council of Ministers to assist and advise the Rajpramukh are administered by the Government of India through its Regional Commisioner in hathiawar I have prepared s parate Instrument for their si natures which we hope to complete by the end of January a Besides prouiding for the summoning of a Constituent Assembly to draft a constitution for the State of Saurashtra the Covenant makes provision for the privy purse of the princes Sardar Patel announced The Pravy Purse of the Rulers has been fixed and the amount shown against each is contained in schedule I to the Covenant This Covenant applie only to the Salute States and Non Salute States There are In addition a number of taltthas and thanas which in March 1948 the States of Bundelkhand and Baghelkhand united to form what is now called Vindhra Pradesh The Maharaja of Rena is th Rajpramukh the Maharaja of Panns the Uparajpramukh consists of the thirty five States and Estates of Bundelkhand and Ba hel khand forming a single administraat and political unit Vindhya Pradesh ·their people On behalf of the Govern ment of India I should like to express our gratefulness to them for their assistance and cooperation in bringing about this beneficent achievement Throughout March 1948 the States Ministry was unusually active The Eastern Rajputana States signed the Covenant of Matsya Union This United State of Matsya was inaugurated by the Hon ble Mr Gadgil in the absence of the Deputy Prime Minister In it the four States of Alwar Dholpur Bharatpur and Karault have merged The Ruler of Dholpur is Rajpramukh and the Ruler of Alwar Uparajpramukh In a message sent on the occasion of the Inauguration of the Matsya Union at Bharatpur the Deputy Prime Minister said I am gratified to learn that the rulers of Dholpur Alwar Bharatpur and haraul have joined together to form a Union which can reasonably be xpected to form a viable unit and have thus forged one more bond with their people of affection and goodwill I am sure their sense of public duty and spirit of sacrifice will be fully appreciated by To the people of the new State ! should like to say how much I should have liked to be with them at this hour when new responsibilities and new opportunities are opening up before them They will now realise what tasks of government lie before them and what heavy obligations devolve on them It is only a great sense of public duty 2 willingness to place service before self and people above personalities indefatigable labour in the public cause and incorruptible character and pure honesty of purpose that can enable them adequately to discharge their allotted tasks ON M L 1 بسم ·11 Ik d rbd Any failure in these essentials will expose them not only to public ridicule in their life time but to the shame of history and the odium of coming generations I hope and pray that the popular representatives will justify the confidence placed in them by the people and Rulers alike History recorded one more important event on Ram Naumi Day (18th April 1948) when the Prime Minister of India inaugurated the Union of Rajasthan States at Udaipur The Maharanas of Udaipur have been the traditional leaders of Rajasthan and the present Ruler of Udaipur rightly took the lead the unification of Rajputana--a cluster of ancient Rajput States The House of Mewar (Udaipur) is proud of its glorious past It has always held high the banner of freedom and His Highness the Maharana in his speech as Rajpramukh very appropriately observed that by taking the lead in the formation of the Rajasthan Union he had formed 2. Jajna (sacrifice) as he agreed to allow the most ancient political organism in India to merge in a United Rajasthan a State which would preserva the culture and traditions of its in habitants The sacrifice of Mewar in building a United Rajasthan was 111, keeping with the glorious traditions of Maharana Pratap the brasest son of Rajasthan for whom no sacrifice was too great for the freedom of the mother land The Prime Minister swore in the Maharana of Udaipur as the first life in ·- { S (1) LA LITY ·con † / STI! Rajpramukh of the Union and the Rulers of hotah Bundt and Dungarpur as Vice Presidents have formed a nest centrally administered area to be called Himachal Pradesh The transfer of the territory of these States to the Dominion on India renders it possible for the Central Government to consolidate into a sizable administru tre unit a large number of small hill Twenty four of the East Punjab Hill States including Chamba nd Suket ·(11!

·time to time specify The Government of India will thu be able to take effectue steps to ensure the development and advancement of Himachal Pradesh and secure at the same time the association of the people of these areas with thar Government The In the middle of April another important Union covenant was signed Gwalior one of the four biggest States in India and Indore growing in indus trial importance joined with 20 smaller states to form the large and promising Union of Madhya Bharat The Ruler of Gwalior is Rajpramukh and the Ruler of Indore senior Uprajpramukh for life The capital of this Union will be at Gualior in the winter at Indore in the The Rulers of Dhar and hulchipur have been clected junior Uparajpramukhs to hold office for five years The Madhya Bharat Union covers a large arca summer States which are incapable of surviving as separatc units Soon afterwards seven East Punjab States united to form the Patiala and East Punjab States Union Patiala kapurthala lind Nabha Malerkotla kalia and Nalagarh signed the Cove nant of this Union The Deputy Prime Minister inaugurated the Union and paid a glowing tribute to the Maharaj of Patiala and to the martial traditions of the Sikhs The Maharaja of Patials is Rajpramukh and the Maharaja of Kapurthala Uparajprimukh for life The Government of India intend to appoint a Lieutenant Governor as soon as practicable subjec to the provisions of the Constitution of India to adminis ter this unit For the time being a Chief Commissioner has been appointed He has an Advisory Council consisting of three Rulers of the East Punjab States and a local legislature with such constitutions powers and functions as the Government of India may from In the first week of May 1948 the Maharao of Cutch entered into 20 agreement with the Government of India transferring the administration of the State to the Indian Government Like Himachal Pradesh Cutch will be ·area a centrally administered Its strategic position makes it necessary for the Central Government to take charge of its administration These unions will strengthen the States economically give them a modern administration and help to preserve their historical and cultural traditions यमे d D f St ? 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·THE UNITED STATES OF RAJASTHAN-Contd V 1 R 5 K TK 11 9 1 R 1 11 Sit fr K 1 tl RJPt 11 tly Ct TI It 1 11 11 6 t el S1 B Vigt T1 f 11 d! hi B fH1 1 998 1? Ik 1 K JI! I 13 1 - 1 1) -- - ·to enough There were other factors at work -psychological and historical When Sardar Patel appealed to the Indian Princes he appealed not only as an Indian but also as 1 Congressman Не was known the people of the States as their champion and friend They knew that he was ? dis ciple of Mahatma Gandhi who always told the Princes that they must be the first servants of their people if they Jesired to uphold their princely pre rogatives The Rulers al o knew that Sardar Patel 1 follower of Mahatma Gandhi believed that the Princes need not be removed They were capable of adapting themselves to the new condi tions and securing a place of honour in the constitution of a free and demo cratic India The Rulers felt that Sardar Patel and through him the Indian Government were the only guardians of their legitimate interests rights and privileges Further Sardar Patel succeeded because he was able to hold the balance between the Rulers and the ruled and assure them both that he would not sacrifice the interests of either He clearly saw the trend of the tunes The gulf was widening between the Rulers and the ru He helped the Rulers to see the threat He offered to mediate in good time in every case and save the situation before it was too late without sacrificing the interests of the people or of the Princcs In a statement at the end of January 1948 Sardar Patel said Nobody could have visualised this transformation in the country six months ago Mr Menon will ·just tell you that a very senior officer of the Political Department told him before the transfer of power that he was wasting his time over Accession and Standstili Agreement and that not one State will iccept the Accession as proposed by the newly formed Ministry of States Those ofhcers are still alive and must be wonder ing how the changes that have occurred since they left have really been brought about web - While I give plenty of credit to the people for this bloodless revolution in nearly one third of the country I have nothing but praise for the manner in which the Rulers have co-operated with us and with the people in bringing about this development None is more con scious than myself that all this could not have becn achieved but for their willing cooperation and their intense patriotism which was latent but which has just blossomed forth in all its fullness with the acquisition of independence by the country The freedom of India was one of the factors which made success possible Indians were no longer vassals to foreign power How could the people of the States be vassals to any power Could their brothers be slaves while those in the rest of India were freer The States people were resolved to be free and they were willing of freedom They were assured that the price they paid would not be easte! They had seen that after three score scars ind more their kith and kin land won their freedom in what was called British India to pay the price Sardar Patel was realistic enou h to ·reconize that the Rulers wanted their privileges and privy purses and that the ruled wanted their rights and civil liberties He reconciled their interests in such a manner that both the Rulers and the ruled obtained the substance of what they wanted and were prepared to com promise where neces ary Let us not forget what Mahatma Gandhi said would like the States to grant autonomy to their subjects and would like the Princes to regard themselses as and be in fact trustees for the people over whom they rule drawing for themselves only a small and definite percentage of the income Therefore the only way in which the Princes can live in a free india is for them now to recognize the time spirit bow to it and act accordingly The process of consolidation has re duced the number of States from five hundred and eighty four to thirty Among these thirty there are a number of major States which have acceded to the Indian Union but are unaffected by the movement for mergence The Gou ernment of India has assured them that they will be treated as separate units In regard to them the Government of India s policy is clear and unequivocal Ther is no desire on our part in any Way i compel or coerce them into merger or integration If they wish to remain separate autonomous units we would have no objection but if the Ruler and the people of any of these State desire to merge with the neighbouring Province or form a union with the neigh ·bouring States on I oluntary basis obviously the Government of India cin not say No Now that the consolidation of the States is a fact the new Unions and enlarged Provinces as well as the major States which have neither mer, ed nor united must justify the hopes implicit in this process The Government of the new integrated units is well as those of the older ones must now help their people to outgrow narrow local affiliations and take their place as citizens of the larger units and of the country of which all the units are an integral part The success of the integration of States will be measured in terms of the integration of the political consciousnes of the people ind the emergence of a national outlook which sets loyalty to the nation above Cherything else C V ui 8 919 ·CONSOLIDATION HIVAS to thi fa htel lle aber in Clarge of the State Def 11 apenrel to le to le equally in tl Do moi of In ha III b b Patel dei un rol 1 of 1 of the Si te LORD Vot BT In the 1 st week of March 1948 the Prime liniste Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru 1 anrwuncing the setting up of a popular usernment in Kashmir with Sheikhhammad Abdullah as Premier pardil country s grateful tribute to Sard Patel He said that the biggest ement today was that of integration It was most commendable that under the influence of the Deputy Prime Minister many Indian States were merg ing with neighbouring Provinces or uniting with other States to form larger units The House loudly cheered as the Prime Minister referred to the grand achievement of Sardar Patel the blood less revolution consolidation and democratization of Indian States The histo rian of the future will undoubtedly assess this process of integration as a great triumph of statesmanship of which India might well be proud mi Twenty years ago the authors of the ME ·It Butler Committee Report looked upon the problem of the Indian States is one of holding together British India and Indian India They admitted that geo graphically India is one and indivisible but they muntuned that politically there are two Indias British India governed by the Crown according to the statutes of Parliament and enactments of the Indian Legislature and the Indian States under the suzerainty of the Crown and still for the most part under the personal rule of the Princes blem of the States as the Congress saw was to bring about a consciousness among all political parties in India that all Indians whether resident in British India or the Indian States belonged to India and were heirs to one common heritage and owed loyalty to the common motherland The Congress saw clearly that there were two factors which kept the Indian States artificially separated from the rest of India First the Indian States had The pro STATE NAGO TTT मनु ·not been formally annexed by the British Government as the Provinces had been Secondly the States maintained the tradı tional monarchical form of Government while the Provinces were ruled by British governors woven with those of the Provinces Even where the map showed solid patches of yellow of pink there were pink enclaves in the yellow and yellow enclaves in the pink The main communications essen tial to the welfare of the whole country passed through the Indian States The Provinces and States were interrelated by economic interests Strong ties of culture race and sentiment bound the people of the States and of the Provinces together Thus the Congress through its own ities and those of the States People s rence, enabled the people of India alize that the pink patches repre the Provinces and the yellow In the f representing the States on the Prime Mot al er the fact that the terri Nehru in th Indian States were inter a popular Sheikh Mo paid the Sard It came to be realized that the exist ence of innumerable small units led to LA re mo duo 40 no ·any form of real progress was scarcely possible in the fragmented and scattered condition of the States But now the integration of States makes this co-ordi nated development possible Besides in the new set up there can be no room for any feudal conventions such as special privileges of the upper classes immunity from taxation judicial and quasi judicial privileges and trade monopolies wastage and inefficiency These units spending large sums of money on Gou ernment institutions failed to maintain efficient standards of administration or to provide efficient services As Sardar Patel has pointed out on several occasions the integration of these small units will now enable them to pool their resources for the provision of adequate administra tive services over reasonably large areas for the general benefit of the people The united resources will also provide adequate social services and modern amenities to the people of the larger groups which were previously beyond the resources of the separate units Any hind of co-ordinated development the opening of economic potentialities or Besides the integration of the States his brought about the complete trans formation of their in structure On the lapse of British Paran ountcy there were only a few States which had repre sentative institutions that oft n camou Anged autocratic rule Near 1 eiers Statc has now announced its inter on to frant full responsible Government nd in most of them power has already been transferred to the people Hos was this bloodless 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