Day: January 30, 2015

The Civil Disobedience Movement, The Round Table Conferences,Gandhi-Irwin Pact, Communal Award,Poona Pact The Civil Disobedience Movement Purna Swaraj: Before 1930, few Indian Political parties had openly embraced the goal of political independence from the United Kingdom. The All India Home Rule League had been advocating Home Rule for India: dominion status within the British Empire, as […]

Viceroy’s Executive Council and The Imperial Legislative Council Viceroy’s Executive Council The Viceroy’s Executive Council was the cabinet of the government of British India headed by the Viceroy of India. It was transformed from an advisory council into a cabinet run by the portfolio system by the Indian Councils Act 1861. The Government of India […]

The Indian Council’s Act, 1892 The Indian Councils Act 1892 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that authorized an increase in the size of the various legislative councils in British India. Background The growth of the Indian Constitution after the Act of 1861 is largely the story of political disaffection and […]

The Government of India Act, 1858 Background The Charter Act of 1853 had laid down that the Company was to retain the territories and the revenues in India in trust for the Crown not for any specified period as preceding Charter Acts had provided but only until Parliament should otherwise direct. The door was thus […]

The Election of 1937 and the formation of Congress ministries: Part II Rule of Congress Ministries (1937-39) Impact of formation of Congress Ministries: The formation of the Ministries by the Congress changed the entire psychological atmosphere in the country. Rule of Congress ministry aroused many expectations among almost all classes. selfstudyhistory.com There was all around increased civil liberty […]

The linguistic reorganisation of states Between 1947 and about 1950, the territories of the princely states were politically integrated into the Indian Union. Most were merged into existing provinces; others were organised into new provinces, such as Rajputana, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Bharat, and Vindhya Pradesh, made up of multiple princely states; a few, including Mysore, […]

Simon Commission The Indian Statutory Commission, popularly known as the Simon Commission (after the name of its chairman Sir John Simon),.was a group of seven British Members of Parliament of United Kingdom that had been dispatched to India in 1928 to study constitutional reform and recommend to the Government. selfstudyhistory.com One of its members was Clement Attlee, […]