INDIAN HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Jawahar Lal Nehru mentions Government of india Act 1935 as the “Charter of Slavery” and compares it with a “machine with all brakes, no engine“. Critically Analyze.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Government of India Act 1935 was an Act adapted from the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It originally received royal assent in August 1935. It was the longest Act of (British) Parliament ever enacted until the Greater London Authority Act 1999 surpassed it.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Government of India Act was passed by the British parliament in 1935 and came into effect in 1937. It was based on a report by a Joint Select Committee, led by Lord Linlithgow, set up the two houses of the British parliament.

Detailed explanation-4: -Jawaharlal Nehru denounced the 1935 Act as a new charter of slavery.

Detailed explanation-5: -The most important feature of the Act was introduction of bicameral legislature. It made an important change that from then onward Secretary of State was to be paid from the British exchequer.