Modern History Of India (Railway)

The Second Plan, 1956 to 1961, a milestone contribution to the development plan in general, sets out the basic ideas regarding goals of the Indian plan: the plan was based on the ideas of Mahalanobis.

He founded the Indian Statistical Institute in Kolkata (1931).

He highlighted "drain of wealth" in his book Poverty and UnBritish Rule in India. He was the first Indian to become a member of the House of Commons (1992) on the Liberal Party ticket.

Under this system, a member of the Viceroy's council was made incharge of one or more departments of the government and was authorized to issue final orders on behalf of the council on matters of this department.

The covenanted civil service was thus thrown open to the Indians also..

Accordingly, the Macaulay Committee (the Committee on the Indian Civil Service) was appointed in 1854.

It is the only session of the Indian National Congress being presided by him.

•The Government failed to concede the basic Indian demand of freedom and Gandhi returned to India on December 28, 1931, and decided to resume the civil disobedience movement.

• In the same year, he presided over the historic Calcutta session of the Congress that passed the resolution of the NonCooperation Movement.

He was the first Indian to tour for political propaganda.

He made the August Offer promising to establish an advisory war council, to expand and include more Indians in the Viceroy Executive Council, and to set up a reрresentative Indian body to frame the Constitution of India.

• In return, the British wanted the support of Indians in the Second World War (1939-45).

He was well known for his pioneering thought and action on the emancipation of women and especially on the abolition of sati and widow remarriage.

The Bengal Sati Regulation which banned the Sati practice in all jurisdictions of British India was passed on December 4, 1829.