Now let us come about this volume. When Lord Lytton promulgated the ordinance, a special session was held in the Bengal Assembly to discuss about the pros and cons of the subject, which I have compiled and edited from the official document of the first volume of the session, 1925 Legislative Assembly Debates. The names of the participant members are given at the beginning of the discussion.
Editor made six Appendixes. The first one being the address delivered before the Royal Empire Society on November 1932 by Sir Charles Tegart. As an efficient British Officer, Charles Tegart certainly was possessed of a detailed survey of the entire terrorist movement in India. For the last eight years of his service in India, he was Commissioner of Police, Calcutta.
Then the speech of Lord Lytton (the Viceroy), Col. Nawab Sir Umar Hayat Khan, the Maharaja of Burdwan, Mr. Edward Villiers (President of the European Association) are included in the Appendixes 2, 3, 4, and 5 respectively.
In the 6th, I have given a list of persons dealt with under the Bengal Criminal Law Amendment Ordinance of 1924 and a list also included of persons dealt with under Regulation III of 1818, in which—though I mentioned earlier—that Subhas Chandra Basu (Netaji) was the first victim of the regulation.
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