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The agencies varied in character from fully autonomous self-governing dependencies such as princely states, where the agent functioned mainly as a representative of the Viceroy, to tribal tracts which were integral parts of the British Empire and where the agent was completely in charge of law and order.
In the United Kingdom, the term public inquiry, also known as a tribunal of inquiry, refers to either statutory or non-statutory inquiries that have been established either previously by the monarch or by government ministers of the United Kingdom, Scottish, Northern Irish and Welsh governments to investigate either specific, controversial events or policy proposals.
The India Office was a British government department in London established in 1858 to oversee the administration of the Provinces of India, through the British viceroy and other officials. The administered territories comprised most of the modern-day nations of the Indian Subcontinent as well as Yemen and other territories around the Indian Ocean.
R/3: India: Viceroy's Private Office Papers and other Government Records 1899–1948; R/4: India: British High Commission Cemetery Records c.1870–1967; R/5: Nepal: Kathmandu Residency Records c.1792–1872; R/8: Burma: Records of the Governor's Office 1942–1947; R/9: Malaya: Malacca Orphan Chamber and Council of Justice Records c.1685–1835
A public inquiry, also known as a tribunal of inquiry, government inquiry, or simply inquiry, is an official review of events or actions ordered by a government body. In many common law countries, such as the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and Canada, such an inquiry differs from a royal commission in that a public inquiry accepts evidence and conducts its hearings in a more public forum ...
The department looked after the diplomatic and "political" relations with the subsidiary states of the British Empire in India, and some states overseas. The nature of its work was indirect rule. [2] The department was disbanded at the time of Indian independence and replaced by a newly formed States Department in the Government of India.
Its purpose was to raise awareness of Indian issues to the public in Britain, to whom the Government of India was responsible. [1] It followed the work of W.C. Bonnerjee and Dadabhoi Naoroji, who raised India related issues in the British parliament through the support of radical MPs like Charles Bradlaugh. [1]
Indian public service commissions (2 C, 1 P) N. National Commission for Scheduled Castes (1 C, 1 P) P. Public inquiries in India (7 P) ... Commission of Inquiry (India)