The Government of India Act 1935


 
 
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The Government of India Act 1935

The Government of India Act (1935)-The Third Round Conference was held in November 1932. Once again, the congress did not participate. After the conference, the British Government passed the Government of India Act of 1935.The act gave new dimensions to the affairs of the country by the development of an All India Federation, Provisional autonomy and the removal of the dyarchy. It was also the last constitution of British India, before the country was divided, in 1947, 

By the 1935 Act:

  •  India was to become a federation based on union of the provinces of British India and princely states. However, it was not bind on the princely states to join the federate.
  •  The right to vote was given only to the proper and other privileged classes.
  •  India at the time consisted of two parts one was ruled by the British; the other comprised principalities or princely states. Although the princely ruled their states, they had no real powers and were completely at the mercy of the British. Most of Indian rulers led lives of luxury, and cared little the welfare of their own subjects, whose conditions was often worse than that of people became one of British.
  • Only a Very few people(14%) of british India were given the Right to vote . 
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