ABSTRACT
In January 1921 the arrangements for initiating the new Constitution having been completed, H. R. H. the Duke of Connaught came out to India to inaugurate the proceedings of the Legislative Councils, land in Bombay on the 17th. The Madras Publicity Office came into existence in September 1919. Lord Willingdon was able to apply the principles of British Parliamentarism, and he approached the leader of the victorious party. With the advent of Lady Willingdon's forceful personality, her joie de vivre, and powers of energetic initiative and organization, Government House changed markedly. The "Justice" or "Non-Brahmin" party, which had been so afraid that the Reforms would strengthen Brahmin domination, finding its demand for communal representation rejected, set to work to organize an energetic electoral campaign. The special invention which Mr. S. Ramachandra Iyer was pressing most eagerly was the "Ramachandra Lift," a modification of the usual South Indian type of water lift by means of the Kabalai.
