What is the rowlatt act?what were the consequences occurred after proposing in India?
Answers
Rowlatt Act or Black Act, was a legislative act passed by the Imperial Legislative Council in Delhi on 10 March 1919, indefinitely extending the emergency measures of preventive indefinite detention, incarceration without trial and judicial review enacted in the Defense of India Act 1915 during the First World War. It was enacted in light of a perceived threat from revolutionary nationalists to organisations of re-engaging in similar conspiracies as during the war which the Government felt the lapse of the DIRA regulations would enable
Answer:
Rowlatt act was passed by the British government to increase their grip on the common folk. This law was passed in March 1919 by the imperial legislative council which gave them power to arrest any person without any trial.
Consequences :-
1) People organised hartals in the cities and railways went on strike.
2) Shops were closed down.
3) Leaders were arrested.