Question

Write down the features of the government of India Act 1919.


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Answer 1

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The Government of India Act of 1919, made a provision for classification of the central and provincial subjects. The Act kept the Income Tax as a source of revenue to the Central Government. However, for Bengal and Bombay, to meet their objections, a provision to assign them 25% of the income tax was made.

Royal assent: 23 December 1919

Repealed by: Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1976

Long title: An Act to make further provision with respect to the Government of India

Answer 2

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Features of the Act

It relaxed the central control over the provinces by demarcating and separating the central and provincial subjects.

It further divided the provincial subjects into two parts—transferred and reserved.

It introduced, for the first time, bicameralism and direct elections in the country.