Who among the following headed the Indian States Committee formed in t

Who among the following headed the Indian States Committee formed in the year 1928 ?

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Motilal Nehru

Sir Harcourt Butler

Ian Copland

M.A. Jinnah

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The Indian States Committee was appointed by the British government in 1927 to investigate the relationship between the Paramount Power (the British Crown) and the Princely States of India, and to suggest measures for their economic and financial relations. It was headed by Sir Harcourt Butler and is therefore famously known as the Butler Committee (1928 is the year it submitted its report, having been appointed in 1927).

– The committee’s main task was to clarify the complex relationship and obligations between the British Crown and the rulers of the Indian Princely States, who were not directly under British Indian administration.
– Its report was submitted in 1928.
– The committee emphasized that paramountcy must remain supreme and that the states should not be transferred without their agreement to a new government in British India responsible to an Indian legislature.

Motilal Nehru chaired the committee that produced the ‘Nehru Report’ in 1928, which drafted a dominion status constitution for India. M.A. Jinnah was a prominent leader of the Muslim League. Ian Copland is a modern historian who has written extensively on the princely states.

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