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  • This was the system of partial but progressive devolution that had already come to be known as "Dyarchy," having been propounded in a somewhat different form by an independent inquirer, Mr. Lionel Curtis, whose "Letters to the People of India" on responsible Government, though they at first caused almost as much displeasure in official as in

    India, Old and New Valentine Chirol 1890

  • Dyarchy (British system created in India to divide governance responsibilities between colonial administration and indigenous representatives) introduced.

    2. Southeast Asia 2001

  • And in the provinces an ingenious system of Dyarchy, which was due very largely to the fertile brain of a man most of you know well, Mr. Lionel Curtis, was instituted, so that today in all of the great provinces of India there are Indian ministers who are administering subjects responsible to the Indian legislatures, such for example as education, public health, local government, and so forth.

    India 1930

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