HC Deb 28 November 1911 vol 32 cc181-2
Mr. RAMSAY MACDONALD

asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether the Government of India is considering the advisability of filling the Lieutenant-Governorship of Bengal in the same way as the Governorships of Madras and Bombay are filled, by men who have not necessarily been in the Indian Civil Service but who have been trained in the public life of this country?

The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for INDIA (Mr. Montagu)

Apart from all questions of policy, the measure suggested would be impossible under the existing law, which requires that a Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal should have been for ten years in the service of the Crown in India.