Question

Describe Salutary Neglect:
a. list examples of self-government the colonies used during the period of Salutary Neglect

Answer 1

The Anarchical and Revolutionary Crimes Act of 1919, popularly known as the Rowlatt Actand also known as the Black Act, was a legislative act passed by the Imperial Legislative Council in Delhi on March 18, 1919, indefinitely extending the emergency measures of preventive indefinite detention, incarceration without trial and judicial review enacted in the Defence of India Act 1915during the First World War. It was enacted in light of a perceived threat from revolutionary nationalist organisations of re-engaging in similar conspiracies as during the war which the Government felt the lapse of the DIRA regulations would enable.[1][2][3][4][5]

Passed on the recommendations of the Rowlatt Committee and named after its president, British judge Sir Sidney Rowlatt, this act effectively authorized the government to imprison any person suspected of terrorismliving in the Raj for up to two years without a trial, and gave the imperial authorities power to deal with all revolutionary activities