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Sep 12, 2026
AlistairNARRATOR
The provincial legislative councils were to include a number of British officials, but a majority of non-official members, some of whom were to be elected by an undemocratic system of class representation.
AlistairNARRATOR
In the Legislative Council for the central administration, the officials still remained in the majority because control of this central council seemed more important to British interests.
AlistairNARRATOR
The councils could pass resolutions subject to the British Parliament's overriding authority.
AlistairNARRATOR
They could discuss the budget and other measures.
AlistairNARRATOR
In Madras, one out of thirty-four.
AlistairNARRATOR
A very interesting feature, though not novel, is the division of the electorate into classes.
AlistairNARRATOR
For example, the Bengal Legislative Council is composed as follows.
AlistairNARRATOR
Non-Mohammedan urban, eleven.
AlistairNARRATOR
The provincial legislative councils were to include a number of British officials, but a majority of non-official members, some of whom were to be elected by an undemocratic system of class representation.
AlistairNARRATOR
In the Legislative Council for the central administration, the officials still remained in the majority because control of this central council seemed more important to British interests.
AlistairNARRATOR
The councils could pass resolutions subject to the British Parliament's overriding authority.
AlistairNARRATOR
They could discuss the budget and other measures.
AlistairNARRATOR
In Madras, one out of 34.
AlistairNARRATOR
A very interesting feature, though not novel, is the division of the electorate into classes.
AlistairNARRATOR
For example, the Bengal Legislative Council is composed as follows.
AlistairNARRATOR
Non-Mohammedan urban, 11.
ExpatriateNARRATOR
I wonder why.
ExpatriateNARRATOR
It struck Eliot also that a commissioner of Ambala and a member of the Legislative Council and a widower ought not to look like Mr. Severn.
ExpatriateNARRATOR
He was too lively, too adventurous.
ExpatriateNARRATOR
He turned again to the enthralling page.
11 MINS LATER
ExpatriateNARRATOR
Was he desperately faithful, too? Always? How could he have been? It was characteristic of Alice Severn that when she had to choose between her husband and her daughter, she had chosen Anne.
ExpatriateNARRATOR
It was characteristic of John that when he had to choose between his wife and his government, he had not chosen Alice.
ExpatriateNARRATOR
He must have had adventures out in India, conducted with the discretion becoming in a commissioner and a member of the Legislative Council.
ExpatriateNARRATOR
But adventures? Perhaps he was going back to one of them.
AlistairNARRATOR
The provincial legislative councils were to include a number of British officials, but a majority of non-official members, some of whom were to be elected by an undemocratic system of class representation.
AlistairNARRATOR
In the Legislative Council for the Central Administration, the officials still remained in the majority because control of this central council seemed more important to British interests.
AlistairNARRATOR
The councils could pass resolutions subject to the British Parliament's overriding authority.
AlistairNARRATOR
They could discuss the budget and other measures.
AlistairNARRATOR
In Madras, one out of 34.
AlistairNARRATOR
A very interesting feature, though not novel, is the division of the electorate into classes.
AlistairNARRATOR
For example, the Bengal Legislative Council is composed as follows.
AlistairNARRATOR
Non-Mohammedan urban, 11.
Pooja PrasannaHOST
Um, he said that his party would offer an alternative to the TDP, YSRCP and Jana Sena, and that its name would be announced after Vijayadasami, which would be in October.
Pooja PrasannaHOST
Telangana, uh, BRS MLC suspended from Telangana Legislative Council over remarks against Speaker.
Pooja PrasannaHOST
The controversy began when people didn't allow BRS MLAs and MLCs to enter the assembly for wearing black T-shirts and sarees, and in a scuffle a video of BRS MLC Madhusudan using abusive language while referring to Speaker Gaddam Prasad has also gone viral.
Pooja PrasannaHOST
Um, the BRS is r- uh, criticizing Congress and calling out its hypocrisy rightly so, saying that if Rahul Gandhi should be allowed and they ask for him to be allowed inside the parliament wearing black as a mark of protest, why is there double standards here? ECI extends SIR deadline in Telangana by three weeks.
ExpatriateNARRATOR
I wonder why.
ExpatriateNARRATOR
It struck Elliot also that a commissioner of Ambala and a member of the Legislative Council and a widower ought not to look like Mr. Severn.
ExpatriateNARRATOR
He was too lively, too adventurous.
ExpatriateNARRATOR
He turned again to the enthralling page.
11 MINS LATER
ExpatriateNARRATOR
Was he desperately faithful, too? Always? How could he have been? It was characteristic of Alice Severn that when she had to choose between her husband and her daughter, she had chosen Anne.
ExpatriateNARRATOR
It was characteristic of John that when he had to choose between his wife and his government, he had not chosen Alice.
ExpatriateNARRATOR
He must have had adventures out in India, conducted with the discretion becoming in a commissioner and a member of the Legislative Council.
ExpatriateNARRATOR
But adventures? Perhaps he was going back to one of them.
Alex BrindleyHOST
Okay.
Alex BrindleyHOST
Because the one thing that is noticeable is if you go back through election after election, and this isn't obviously restricted to change, is that people always talk about maybe reforming the Legislative Council, replacing it with an elected chamber, and then when they get in there, this doesn't happen.
Alex BrindleyHOST
and normally it's because they've discovered that MLCs are there for a scrutiny role and there are roles that actually is performed.
Alex BrindleyHOST
So is there a danger you get in and one of your headline policies you sit there thinking, oh, we got that wrong? Well, they could do
Peter KarranGUEST
You could have to spend three years debating something to do with social welfare.
Peter KarranGUEST
But if it was to do with the legislation for a bank, you could get it done in the House of Keys in the morning and in the Legislative Council in the afternoon.
Peter KarranGUEST
It's about priorities.
Peter KarranGUEST
It's about service, not self-service.
Cheralyn DarceyHOST
He had become very wealthy, land, sheep, vast pastoral holdings across the expanding colony.
Cheralyn DarceyHOST
He was elected to the Legislative Council in 1843 and led the Conservative Party.
Cheralyn DarceyHOST
The man who had championed the ordinary people against the establishment now lent his support to the squatters and their demands for favourable land regulations.
Cheralyn DarceyHOST
He remained himself, inconsistent, enormous, impossible to contain in a single description.
AlistairNARRATOR
The provincial legislative councils were to include a number of British officials, but a majority of non-official members, some of whom were to be elected by an undemocratic system of class representation.
AlistairNARRATOR
In the Legislative Council for the central administration the officials still remained in the majority, because control of this central council seemed more important to British interests.
AlistairNARRATOR
The councils could pass resolutions, subject to the British Parliament's overriding authority.
AlistairNARRATOR
They could discuss the budget and other measures.
AlistairNARRATOR
In Madras, one out of 34.
AlistairNARRATOR
A very interesting feature, though not novel, is the division of the electorate into classes.
AlistairNARRATOR
For example, the Bengal Legislative Council is composed as follows.
AlistairNARRATOR
Non-Mohammedan urban, 11.
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