Discuss the salient features of Montague-Chelmsford reform
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1. advocated the need to emancipate the local governments and legislatures from central control; and to advance, by successive stages, in the direction of conferring responsible government on the provinces.
2. established the framework for devolution of powers and gave credence to the cry for self-governance.
3. elections to the legislatures were introduced
4. introduced the idea of Council of Ministers being responsible to the parliament and elucidated the principle of accountable governance by directing that the “Government of India must remain wholly responsible to Parliament.”
5. provided for partial transfer of power to the electorate through the system of Dyarchy.
6. prepared the ground for the Indian federalism, as it identified the provinces as units of fiscal and general administration.