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Business Line : Columns / TCA Srinivasa Raghavan : To the manor reborn

Posted by on June 16, 2011

A refurbished colonial retreat in Mussoorie.

Who was responsible for the birth of the once-great and noble Congress party? Most people will say Alan Octavian Hume and the rest of his gang. But the truth, as usual, is different.

It was a man called Courtney Peregrine Ilbert, a government lawyer, who came up with a very good idea in 1883: he drafted a legislation that would allow Indian magistrates to try white people.

The Whites, especially in Calcutta (now …(Read more)

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