Word: macdonaldization
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...MacDonald solution (who did the actual work on it could not be ascertained last week) affects one-fifth of the population of the earth, but an actual electorate of only 36,000,000. It will not apply to the Indian native states, but to the nine provinces of British India. The worst knots in the problem of communal representation were untangled as follows...
Women. Though enfranchised Indian women have protested that they did not want special privileges, the MacDonald settlement prepares for the future by setting aside 37 seats especially for women: 25 Hindus, 9 Moslem, one Sikh, one Indian Christian, one Anglo-Indian...
...actual majority, but most of the money, most of the educated classes, nearly all of the newspapers, are Hindu. In the Punjab, whence come the bearded fighting Sikhs of the Indian army and police force, the Moslem peasants are hopelessly in debt to crafty Hindu moneylenders. The MacDonald commission has solved the problem of the Indian Ulsters to its own satisfaction by not giving the Moslems a statutory majority in either province but protecting their rights by giving the balance of power to Europeans in Bengal, and in Punjab giving the Sikhs a separate 19% representation which will insure...
Reaction. To U. S. observers the system seemed quite as fair as Scot MacDonald said it was. Just as Scot MacDonald had predicted, its publication raised an immediate tohu-bohu in the Indian native Press. Shrilled the Hindu Nationalist Advance...
...Communalist bullies have won the day. MacDonald has paid his reactionary supporters the price of his office. Churchill and his understudy at the India Office have realized their dream...