Pre-Study: What to Study
2 Subtopics · 55 ConceptsOpening Background: From Trading Company to Territorial Power
How a Trading Company Became a Ruling Power
Importance 3/5 What to StudyRegulating Act of 1773
Constitutional Importance of the Regulating Act
Importance 4/5 What to StudyFeatures of the Regulating Act
Importance 5/5 What to StudyAmending Act of 1781
Why the Amending Act (Act of Settlement) Was Passed, and What It Changed
Importance 3/5 What to StudyPitt's India Act of 1784
Features of Pitt's India Act and the System of Double Government
Importance 5/5 What to StudySignificance of Pitt's India Act
Importance 4/5 What to StudyAct of 1786
Cornwallis's Conditions and the Act of 1786
Importance 2/5 What to StudyCharter Act of 1793
Features of the Charter Act of 1793
Importance 3/5 What to StudyCharter Act of 1813
Features of the Charter Act of 1813
Importance 4/5 What to StudyCharter Act of 1833
Governor-General of India and the Final Step Towards Centralisation
Importance 5/5 What to StudyLegislative Power Under the 1833 Act: Regulations and Acts
Importance 5/5 What to StudyEnd of the Company's Commercial Role and the First Attempt at Open Competition
Importance 4/5 What to StudyCharter Act of 1853
Place of the 1853 Act in the Charter Series and Its Extension of Company Rule
Importance 3/5 What to StudySeparation of Legislative and Executive Functions
Importance 5/5 What to StudyCivil Service Recruitment and the Macaulay Committee
Importance 4/5 What to StudyLocal Representation in the Central Legislative Council
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Government of India Act of 1858
Why the Act Was Passed and the New Viceroy
Importance 5/5 What to StudySecretary of State for India, Council of India and the End of Double Government
Importance 5/5 What to StudyHow Far the 1858 Act Changed the Government of India
Importance 3/5 What to StudyIndian Councils Act of 1861
Policy of Association and Indian Nominees
Importance 4/5 What to StudyDecentralisation and New Provincial Councils
Importance 4/5 What to StudyPortfolio System and Viceroy's Rule-Making Power
Importance 4/5 What to StudyViceroy's Ordinance-Making Power
Importance 5/5 What to StudyIndian Councils Act of 1892
Larger Councils and Wider Functions
Importance 4/5 What to StudyNomination on Recommendation, an Indirect Step Towards Election
Importance 4/5 What to StudyIndian Councils Act of 1909
Size of Councils and Official/Non-Official Majorities
Importance 4/5 What to StudyDeliberative Functions and Indians in Executive Councils
Importance 4/5 What to StudySeparate Electorates Under the 1909 Act
Importance 5/5 What to StudyComparing the Acts of 1861, 1892 and 1909
Importance 4/5 What to StudyGovernment of India Act of 1919
Background (1917 Declaration) and the Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms
Importance 4/5 What to StudyCentral and Provincial Subjects and the Devolution Rules
Importance 4/5 What to StudyDyarchy in the Provinces
Importance 5/5 What to StudyBicameralism and Direct Elections at the Centre
Importance 5/5 What to StudyExecutive Council, Franchise and Extended Communal Representation
Importance 3/5 What to StudyOther Provisions of 1919 (High Commissioner, Public Service Commission, Provincial Budgets, Statutory Commission)
Importance 4/5 What to StudyChamber of Princes
Importance 3/5 What to StudySimon Commission
Simon Commission: Appointment, Boycott, Recommendations and the Steps to the 1935 Act
Importance 5/5 What to StudyCommunal Award
The Communal Award and Gandhi's Fast
Importance 5/5 What to StudyThe Poona Pact and Its Incorporation into the 1935 Act
Importance 5/5 What to StudyGovernment of India Act of 1935
Place and Scale of the 1935 Act
Importance 4/5 What to StudyAll-India Federation and the Three Lists
Importance 5/5 What to StudyProvincial Autonomy and Proposed Dyarchy at the Centre
Importance 5/5 What to StudyProvincial Bicameralism
Importance 4/5 What to StudyRepresentation and Franchise
Importance 4/5 What to StudyCentral Institutions Under the 1935 Act: Abolished and Provided For
Importance 5/5 What to StudyTerritorial Changes and Minority Safeguards
Importance 3/5 What to StudyIndian Independence Act of 1947
Road to the Act: Attlee's Declaration and the Mountbatten (3 June) Plan
Importance 5/5 What to StudyEnding British Rule: Two Dominions and the Governor-General
Importance 5/5 What to StudyPowers of the Constituent Assemblies and British Acts
Importance 5/5 What to StudyPrincely States, Paramountcy and Tribal-Area Treaties
Importance 5/5 What to StudyInterim Governance, Constitutional Heads and the Crown's Formal Role
Importance 4/5 What to StudyCivil Services and the Secretary of State's Offices
Importance 3/5 What to StudyThe Transfer of Power and Its Immediate Aftermath
Importance 4/5 What to StudyInterim Government (1946) and First Cabinet of Independent India (1947)
The Interim Government of 1946
Importance 3/5 What to StudyThe First Cabinet of Independent India (1947)
Importance 2/5 What to Study