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SECTION I
Answer in short.
Not more than two sentences · , all 10 20 Marks
1.State any two shortcomings of the Government of India Act, 1919.[2]
Answer
The Government of India Act, 1919 introduced dyarchy in the Provinces, but it failed in practice. Any two of these shortcomings answer the question.
- Dyarchy was unworkable. Provincial subjects were split into reserved subjects, with the Governor, and transferred subjects, with Indian ministers. But land revenue and finance were reserved. So the ministers in charge of education and health had to ask an official, answerable to nobody, for the money they needed.
- The division of subjects was artificial. Agriculture was transferred but irrigation was reserved. A minister could not run one without the other.
- The Governor could override the ministers even in transferred subjects. So the ministers had responsibility without power.
- No collective responsibility. The ministers were chosen individually and did not act as a team answerable to the legislature.
- No responsible government at the Centre. The Governor-General's executive council answered to neither House. He could certify a Bill the legislature had refused and restore a grant it had rejected.
- Communal electorates were extended to Sikhs, Indian Christians, Anglo-Indians and Europeans. This deepened communal divisions.
- A narrow franchise. Only about ten per cent of adult men could vote.
Result. These defects led to the Simon Commission of 1927 and later to the Government of India Act, 1935.
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