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In his famous resolution on local self-government on 18 May 1882, Ripon addressed the twin considerations of administrative efficiency and political education. The Ripon Resolution, which focused on towns, provided for local bodies consisting of a large majority of elected non-official members and presided over by a non-official chairperson.
George Frederick Samuel Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon, KG, GCSI, CIE, VD, PC (24 October 1827 – 9 July 1909), styled Viscount Goderich from 1833 to 1859 and known as the Earl of Ripon in 1859 and as the Earl de Grey and Ripon from 1859 to 1871, was a British politician and Viceroy and Governor General of India who served in every Liberal cabinet between 1861 and 1908.
An illustration published in The Graphic on 25 January 1884 depicting a meeting in the Bombay Town Hall in support of the bill. The Ilbert Bill was a bill introduced to the Imperial Legislative Council (ILC) of British India on 9 February 1883 which stipulated that non-white judges could oversee cases that had white plaintiffs or defendants.
George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon (1827–1909) 8 June 1880 13 December 1884 First Factory Act (1881) Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881; First complete Census in India (1881) Repeal of the Vernacular Press Act (1882) Establishment of Panjab University (1882) Government resolution on local self-government (1882) [16]
In 1882, a short time after Vijayaraghavachariar had set up practice in Salem, a riot broke out in the city. [2] Vijayaraghavachariar was charged for instigating the violence that led to the demolition of a mosque and was sentenced to prison for ten years. [1] He fought the charges in court and finally proved his innocence.
This is a list of close election results on the national level and within administrative divisions.It lists results that have been decided by a margin of less than 1 vote in 1,000 (a margin of less than 0.1 percentage points): single-winner elections where the winning candidate was less than 0.1% ahead of the second-placed candidate, as well as party-list elections where a party was less than ...
This was a revival of the viscountcy of Goderich created for his great-great-grandfather the Duke of Kent in 1706. In 1833 Robinson was further honoured when he was made Earl of Ripon, in the County of Kent in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. On his death in 1859 he was succeeded by his only son, the aforementioned second Earl of Ripon.
The Seditious Publications Act,1882 Status: Repealed In British India, the Vernacular Press Act (1878) was enacted to curtail the freedom of the Indian press and prevent the expression of criticism toward British policies—notably, the opposition that had grown with the outset of the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878–80). [ 1 ]