DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATION OVERSEAS INDIAN REPRESENTATIVES IN OTHER COMMONWEALTH COUNTRIES Britain: A. B. Pant (High Commissioner); Canada: General J. N. Chaudhuri (High Commissioner); Australia: A. M. Thomas (High Commissioner); New Zealand: S. N. Chopra (High Commissioner); Pakistan: B. K. Acharya (High Commissioner); Ceylon: Y. D. Gundevia (High Commissioner); Ghana: S. V. Patel (High Commissioner); Malaysia: K. C. Nair (High Commissioner); Singapore: Prem Bhatia (High Commissioner); Federal Republic of Nigeria: S. G. Ramachandran (High Commissioner); Cyprus: A. K. Dar (High Commissioner) (resident in Beirut); Sierra Leone: S. V. Patel (High Commissioner) (resident in Accra); United Republic of Tanzania: V. C. Vijaya Rhagaran (High Commissioner); Jamaica: Lakshmi Narayan Ray (High Commissioner) (resident in Port of Spain); Trinidad and Tobago: Lakshmi Narayan Ray (High Commissioner); Uganda: R. R. Sinha (High Commissioner); Kenya: Avtar Singh (High Commissioner); Malawi: M. M. Khurana (High Commissioner); Malta: I. J. Bahadur Singh (High Commissioner) (resident in Rome); Zambia: S. Krishnamurti (High Commissioner); The Gambia: G. J. Malik (High Commissioner) (resident in Dakar); Guyana: Lakshmi Narayan Ray (High Commissioner) (resident in Port of Spain); Fiji: (Commissioner); Hong Kong: J. K. Ganju (Commissioner); Mauritius: (High Commissioner). COMMONWEALTH HIGH COMMISSIONERS Britain: Sir Morrice James, KCMG, CVO, INDIAN REPRESENTATION IN NONCOMMONWEALTH COUNTRIES Afghanistan (Ambassador); Algeria (Ambassador); Argentine (Ambassador); Austria (Ambassador); Belgium (Ambassador) (also India's Special Representative for Economic, Financial and Commercial Affairs); Bolivia (Ambassador) (resident in Rio de Janeiro); Brazil (Ambassador); Bulgaria (Ambassador) (resident in Bucharest); Burma (Ambassador); Burundi (Ambassador) (Resident in Kampala); Cambodia (Ambassador); Cameroon (Ambassador) (resident in Lagos); Chile (Ambassador); China (Chargé d'Affaires); Colombia (Ambassador) (resident in Santiago); Congo (Ambassador); Cuba (Ambassador) (resident in Mexico City); Czechoslovakia (Ambassador); Dahomey (Ambassador) (resident in Lagos); Denmark (Ambassador); Ethiopia (Ambassador); Finland (Ambassador) (resident in Stockholm); France (Ambassador); Germany (Ambassador); Greece (Ambassador) (resident in Belgrade); Guinea (Ambassador); Holy See (Ambassador) (resident in Berne); Hungary (Ambassador); Indonesia (Ambassador); Iran (Ambassador); Iraq (Ambassador); Ireland (Ambassador); Italy (Ambassador); Ivory Coast (Ambassador) (resident in Dakar); Japan (Ambassador); Jordan (Ambassador) (resident in Beirut); Kuwait (Ambassador) (resident in Beirut); Laos (Ambassador); Lebanon (Ambassador); Liberia (Ambassador) (resident in Accra); Libya (Ambassador) (resident in Cairo); Luxembourg (Ambassador) (resident in Brussels); Malagasy Republic (Ambassador); Mali (Ambassador) (resident in Accra); Mexico (Ambassador); Mongolia (Ambassador) (resident in Moscow); Morocco (Ambassador); Nepal (Ambassador); Netherlands (Ambassador); Norway (Ambassador); Panama (Ambassador) (resident in Mexico City); Paraguay (Ambassador) (resident in Buenos Aires); Peru (Ambassador) (resident in Santiago); Philippines (Ambassador); Poland (Ambassador); Rwanda (Ambassador) (resident in Kampala); Rumania (Ambassador); Saudi Arabia (Ambassador); Senegal (Ambassador); Somalia (Ambassador); Spain (Ambassador); Sudan (Ambassador); Sweden (Ambassador); Switzerland (Ambassador); Syrian Arab Republic (Ambassador); Thailand (Ambassador); Togo (Ambassador) (resident in Lagos); Tunisia (Ambassador) (resident in Rabat); Turkey (Ambassador); United Arab Republic (Ambassador); United Nations (Permanent Representative, New York); United States (Ambassador); Upper Volta (Ambassador) (resident in Dakar); Uruguay (Ambassador) (resident in Buenos Aires); U.S.S.R. (Ambassador); Venezuela (Ambassador) (resident in Rio de Janiero); Vietnam (North) (Consul General); Vietnam (South) (Consul General); Yemen (Ambassador) (resident in Cairo); Yugoslavia (Ambassador). THE STATES AND TERRITORIES OF THE UNION The Executive of each State consists of a Governor appointed by the President and normally holding his office for a period of five years, and a Council of Ministers who must be, or within six months become, members of the Legislature of the State. In some States the Legislature consists of a single House only, the Legislative Assembly, but in other States there is an Upper House as well, the Legislative Council. Each assembly is elected directly by adult suffrage and has a maximum life of five years and strict limits as to maximum and minimum membership. The legislative field is divided explicitly between the Union and the States, the residual powers belonging to the Union. In case of conflict, Union law overrides State law. Subject to the provisions of the Constitution, the Union Parliament may make laws for the whole or any part of the territory of India, and the Legislature of a State may make laws for the whole or any part of the State. The Union Parliament has exclusive powers to make laws with respect to matters grouped under 97 headings in the Constitution, including, e.g., foreign affairs, defence, citizenship, currency, banking, railways, aviation, shipping, communications and trade and commerce with other countries. The State Legislatures have exclusive power to make laws for their own States with respect to matters grouped under 66 headings in the Constitution, e.g., public order and police, education, public health, the administration of justice, elections to the Legislature, excise and taxes, water, land and forests. The Union Parliament and, subject to the exclusive powers referred to above, the State Legislatures have concurrent powers to make laws with respect to certain matters which are grouped under 47 headings in the Constitution, including criminal law and procedure, marriage and divorce, civil procedure, social security, labour, trade and commerce. The Judges of the High Court of a State are appointed by the President, not by the Governor. The President may proclaim an emergency which empowers the Union Government to assume executive and financial control of any State, but the proclamation must be approved subsequently by the Union Parliament. For up to three years the President may, if satisfied that the State cannot be governed in accordance with its constitution, himself assume the functions of Government subject to his proclamations (each valid for six months) receiving the subsequent approval of the Union Parliament. The Union Territories are administered, save as otherwise provided by Parliament, by the President acting through an Administrator or other authority appointed by him. Population figures mentioned below are based on the 1961 census. ANDHRA PRADESH The State of Andhra was formed in 1953 out of the Telugu-speaking parts of ASSAM The State of Assam comprises the former Province of Assam, the North East Frontier Agency (N.E.F.A.), the Khasi States and a number of other small Princely States. Its borders were unaffected by the States Reorganisation Act, 1956. Its principal language is Assamese. Its area is about 85,000 square miles and the population excluding tribal areas is nearly 14 million. The State capital is Shillong. The Congress Party form the State Government. Governor: B. K. Nehru Chief Minister: B. P. Chaliha BIHAR The State of Bihar comprises the former Province of Bihar and the two small Princely States of Kharsawan and Seraikella. Under the States Reorganisation Act, 1956, it lost some territory to the neighbouring State of West Bengal. Its principal language is Hindi. Its area is about 67,000 square miles and its population about 52 million. The State capital is Patna. The State is under President's rule. Governor: Nityanand Kanungo GUJARAT Established on 1st May 1960, following the division of the bi-lingual Bombay State, Gujarat comprises the former States of Saurashtra and Kutch and the Gujarati-speaking area in the north of the former Bombay State reaching as far south as Surat. The area of the new State is about 72,000 square miles and its population about 24 million. The temporary State capital is Ahmedabad pending the completion of a new capital to be called Gandhinagar some 15 miles further north. The Congress Party form the State Government. Governor: Shriman Narayan HARYANA Haryana was established as a separate State in 1966 following the reorganisation of the Punjab (of which it was previously a part) on linguistic lines. Its principal language is Hindi. Its area is about 17,000 square miles and its population about 8 million. The State capital is in Chandigarh (the former capital of the Punjab, which is now a Union Territory). The Congress Party form the State Government. Acting Governor: B. N. Chakravarty Chief Secretary: Saroop Krishen KERALA The State of Kerala was formed in 1956 out of most of the former Malayalamspeaking State of Travancore-Cochin (originally a Union of Princely States) together with the Malabar District of Madras, also Malayalam-speaking. Its area is about 15,000 square miles and its population nearly 19 million. The State capital is Trivandrum. The State Government is a coalition. Governor: V. Viswanathan Chief Minister: E. M. S. Namboodripad MADHYA PRADESH The State of Madhya Pradesh originally comprised the former Central Provinces and Berar and 15 Princely States. In 1956 its borders were substantially redrawn. It lost territory in the south-west (Berar) to Bombay and acquired the former States of Bhopal, Madhya Bharat and Vindhya Pradesh, all originally Princely States or unions of such States. Its principal language is Hindi. Its area is about 171,000 square miles and its population about 37 million. Its capital is Bhopal. The Congress Party form the State Government. Governor: K. C. Reddy Chief Minister: S. C. Shukla MADRAS The State of Madras comprises the large Tamil-speaking remnant of the former Province of Madras. In 1953 it lost its northern areas to Andhra and in 1956 some of its western districts to Mysore and Kerala. It acquired, however, in 1956 a small Tamil-speaking portion of Travancore-Cochin. Its area is about 50,000 square miles and its population about 37 million. The State capital is Madras. The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam form the State Government. Governor: Sardra Ujjal Singh Chief Minister: Karumanidhi MAHARASHTRA Established on 1st May 1960 following the division of the bi-lingual Bombay State, Maharashtra comprises the area of the former Bombay State south and east of Surat District (including Vidarbha). The area of the new State is about 118,500 square miles and its population about 45 million. The principal language is Marathi. The State capital is Bombay City. The Congress Party form the State Government. Governor: P. V. Cherian MYSORE The State of Mysore comprises the former Princely State of Mysore, more than doubled in size in 1956 by the addition of the Kannada-speaking areas of Bombay, Hyerabad, Madras and Coorg. Its area is about 74,000 square miles and its population about 26 million. The State capital is Bangalore. The Congress Party form the State Government. Governor: G. S. Pathak NAGALAND Under the Constitution (Thirteenth Amendment) Act 1962, the areas comprised in the Naga Hills-Tuensang Area, known by the name of Nagaland, became a separate State of the Indian Union. The State has an area of 6,236 square miles and the population number about 400,000. The State capital is Kohima. |