Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Government
of India Act 1935
- Provisions of the Act
- Expand the
electorate to 35
million people
- Abolish dyarchy
- Make 2 new
provinces: Orissa
and Sind
- Viceroy keeps
responsibility for
defence and
foreign affairs
- Reactions
to the act
- Many
wanted
purna
swaraj
- Seen by many as 'too little, too
late'
- Congress split over the act -
some refused on princple whilst
others wanted to grasp the short
term political gains
- Federation and the princes
- Designed to make India a federal like America,including the
princely states
- Concessions were
given to the princes
eg. the could select
their own
representatives
without elections
- The British thought that
they could weaken
Congress by including
the princes who were
conservative and
traditionally loyal to the
Raj
- Princes refused to
sign,worried they
would lose their
personal armies and
would be forced to
become more
democratic
- 1937 elections
- Feeling of self-government
- Congress won the vast
majority of seats and
became drunk on
power - refused to
cooperate with the
viceroy
- Muslim league suffered - Jinnah started arguing for a
separate Muslim state (mainly a bargaining chip)