Aundh Commission : appointed by Govt. in 1907 to shore up its charge against the Prince of Aundh (in Bombay Presidency) of killing his chief minister. Under Pax Britannica (q.v.), each hereditary native ruler was Queen-Empress’ feudatory nicknamed ‘princes’, completely under the thumb of Viceroy’s British Agent governing that kingdom reduced to ‘a state’.
... if the President of the Conference were his tame cat,—for what else was the Knight of the Umbrella, pushed into a position to which he has no claims of any kind? Nor was it his exclusion of the Aundh Commission from consideration by the Conference; it is part of the orthodox Congress "nationalism" to exclude the Princes and Chiefs of India from consideration as if they were not an important part of the ...
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