Report of the Royal Commission on Labour in India

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Identifikator:: 1850495947

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-233603

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Report of the Royal Commission on Labour in India

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: His Majesty's Stationery Off.

Year of publication:: 1931

Scope:: xviii, 580 S.; graph. Darst., Kt.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter I. - Introduction

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ROYAL COMMISSION ON LABOUR IN INDIA. REPORT. To Tae KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. May it please Your Majesty, We, the Commissioners appointed to enquire into and report on the existing conditions of labour in industrial undertakings and plantations in British India, on the health, efficiency and standard of living of the workers, and on the relations between employers and employed, and to make recommendations ; humbly submit to Your Majesty the follow- ing Report. Our Report is signed by all of us with the exception of Sir Ibrahim Rahimtoola who was elected President of the Legislative Assembly on the 17th of January 1931. From that date he was unable to take further part in our proceedings and for this reason he does not sign the Report. We are grateful to him for the help which he gave until he was called to other duties. CHAPTER I.-INTRODUCTION. Tours. After our appointment, we prepared a list of subjects on which we particularly desired information, and afranged for its despatch, with a short covering letter, to those bodies and individuals who appeared likely to be in a position to provide information of value, inviting them to send memoranda. The letter and the list will be found in an Appendix to this Report. Thereafter we assembled at Bombay on 11th October 1929, and began our public sessions at Karachi four days later. Between that date and 22nd March 1930, the Commission was continuously on bour and visited all the eight major provinces of British India (exclud- ing Burma), and Delhi, Ajmer-Merwara and Coorg. During the course of this tour we held 107 public sessions at 37 different places, which included all the leading industrial centres in India proper. We met again in London on 3rd June 1930, and between that date and 13th August 1930 we held there 24 sessions for recording evidence and for the consideration of the material then in our hands. Thereafter we left England for Burma, spending on the way 4 days in Ceylon for the pur- Pose of gaining certain information relating to conditions in plantations In that island. We reached Burma on 19th October 1930 and, after 8 tour there, ‘sailed for India on 11th November 1930. We met again in Delhi for the preparation of this Report. Prefaced to it is a sketch map of our tours, which extended to 16,000 miles, exclusive of the journeys between London and Bombay and Colombo. In the course

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