Question

Give two examples of arbitrary law during British rule? Why do you think these were arbitrary laws?​

Answer 1

Answer:

1) One example of the arbitrariness of British law is the Sedition Act of 1870. According to this act any person protesting or criticising the British government could be arrested without due trial. (ii) The Indian nationalists played a prominent role in the development of the legal sphere in British India.

2)  Britishers imposed so called 'rule of law concept' in its colonies not with an intention to impart justice but to ruin colonies by passing oppressive laws, this is the reason why in any colonies of British, 'rule of law' was not flourished as expected by native people, this was not because there were totally stranger ...