Question
UPSC Prelims 2016 Question:
The Montague-Chelmsford Proposals were related to
Answer (Detailed Solution Below)
Option 4: constitutional reforms
Detailed Solution
Explanation:
- Conditions produced by the outbreak of World War I provided the background to the passing of the Government of India Act of 1919 known as Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms (1919) on constitutional reforms. The most important change it introduced was the system of Dyarchy under which the provincial governments were given more power but the Governor retained complete control over finances while the ministers in charge of public health, education etc. were responsible to the legislature.
- Unlike Morley-Minto Reforms (1909), the demand by nationalists for self government or Home Rule could not be termed as seditious was included in the provisions of the Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms (1919).
Therefore, option (4) is the correct answer.
Subject: History | British Administrative Reforms
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