14 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
as to include an item like item No. 16 in the Concurrent List. Therefore, my submission is this, that even if we were to rely upon the Instruments of Accession, this House cannot derive any jurisdiction from those Instruments of Accession, My Honourable friend Mr. Ananthasayanam Ayyangar evidently realised this difficulty and put forth the proposition which he said was capable of being adopted by this House in order to extend the legislation to the Indian States. His proposition was this. There have been many pieces of legislation passed by this House which were limited in the first instance to certain areas, such as for instance a province or a district or any smaller area, and the Bill included a clause which enabled the executive, by a notification, to extend that particular legislation to other areas not originally included in the Bill. Now that proposition, so far as it applies to the provinces of British India, is perfectly sound. But if it were to be applied to the Indian States, it would be wholly unsound, and the reason is this. The analogy is absolutely false and not true. Now Sir, when we apply the legislation, which is originally in the Bill itself confined to a particular area, to another area not made subject to that at the time when the Bill was passed, the position is this, that the area over which the legislation is subsequently extended to is not subject to the jurisdiction of that legislation. If the legislature wanted in the very first instance to apply that law to that area, nothing in the constitution of this Government or in the powers of the legislature could prevent the legislature from doing so. So far as the States are concerned, we have jurisdiction over their territory with regard to three subjects only; we have not got full jurisdiction. We are not limiting our jurisdiction when we are legislating with respect to a State in respect of the three subjects ; we are in fact spending our legislative authority to the fullest extent that we have. The analogy, therefore, is not a correct analogy. So far as the Provinces are concerned, we have at the moment, when we are enacting the law, jurisdiction which we would exercise if we wanted to do so. That is not the case with regard to the Indian States. True enough, if a supplementary Instrument of Accession was passed we could get the jurisdiction necessary for the purpose of enacting the law; but what I