DR. RUTHERFORD (Middlesex, Brentford)To ask the Secretary of State for India whether his attention has been drawn to a memorial of protest against the proposal to partition the district of Khandesh, in the Bombay Presidency, which has been addressed to the Governor of Bombay by the citizens of Dhalia, the chief town of the district, in public meeting assembled; and whether, in view of the complaint made in the memorial that the inhabitants of the district have not been consulted in the matter, he will issue instructions to the various administrations in India that due consideration shall in future be shown to the wishes and sentiments of the people concerned before such measures of dismemberment are put into operation.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Morley.) I promised, in reply to a similar Question which the hon. Member asked on the 13th November with reference to the Madura District, to communicate with the Government of Madras on the subject.† I will communicate in the same sense with the Government of India and the Government of Bombay.