DR. RUTHERFORD (Middlesex, Brentford)I beg to ask the Prime Minister whether, in view of the fact that the partitioning of Bengal by the late Government lies at the root of much of the discontent in India, His Majesty's Government will rectify this administration Act, which never received the assent of this House.
§ THE UNDER-SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA (Mr. BUCHANAN,) Perthshire, E.The partition of Bengal did not require the assent of this House, and the Secretary of State finds nothing to add to the language used by the late Prime Minister and by himself in the House of Commons in 1906.
§ MR. REES (Montgomery Boroughs)Is it not the case that the Mahomedans of all classes, and Hindoos of all but the 349 upper classes, have repudiated the assumption that they are opposed to the partition and have passed public resolutions to this effect?