Which one of the following was not a reason for the passing of Government of India Act, 1861:

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1. Which one of the following is not true about the Government of India Act, 1861?

   A. Board of Directors was abolished
   B. Board of Control was abolished
   C. A Council for secreatary of state was created
   D. Governor General was to be appointed by the Crown
   E. A separate province of U.P. Was created

2. Which one of the following was not a cause responsible for the passing of Government of India Act, 1935:

   A. The Act of 1919 was much below the expectations of the people
   B. The bureaucracy was not elastic under the Act of 1919
   C. The system of dyarchy proved unworkable
   D. Report of Hunter Committee encouraged people towards British Government
   E. Gandhiji’s non-cooperation movement had mass appeal

3. Which one of the following was nota cause responsible for the passing of Government of India Act, 1919?

   A. Indians had made sacrifices during World War I
   B. In Congress power slipped to extremists
   C. Indians continued to, be ill-treated abroad
   D. Interests of Indian commercial classes during war were fully protected
   E. It was felt that the Government of India was inelastic

4. Which one of the following was not the provision of Act of 1861?

   A. Number of ordinary executive councillor was raised to five
   B. Secretary of State was empowered to appoint C-in-C as extraordinary member of his council
   C. Assent of Governor-General was necessary for all bills
   D. Governor-General could not revoke a measure passed by Governor’s Council
   E. Legislative powers of Bombay Presidency were restored

5. Which one of the following is not one of the important effects of Act of 1861?

   A. It made a beginning in the representative institution
   B. It made beginning in legislative devolution
   C. Government got opportunity to defend its policies
   D. Non-official members were added to the Governor-General’s Council
   E. It made legislatures really a representative body

6. In 1890 a Bill to amend Act of 1861 in the House of Common was moved by:

   A. Lord North Brooke
   B. Lord Sinha
   C. Charles Bradlaugh
   D. None of these

7. Under the government of India Act, 1935 it was proposed that India shall:

   A. Be a unitary state
   B. Be a federal state
   C. Have parliamentary form of Government
   D. Have presidential form of Government
   E. Be a limited monarchy

8. System of communal representation in legislative bodies in, India was introduced with the Government of India Act:

   A. 1862
   B. 1892
   C. 1909
   D. 1919
   E. 1935

9. The Government of India Act, 1919 will be remembered in. India because:

   A. It introduced communal system of representation
   B. It started dyarchy
   C. It gave wide political powers to Indians
   D. It established non-official majority in the centre
   E. It ended communal system of representation

10. In your opinion which one of the following was not one of the causes of passing of Indian Council’s Act, 1909?

    A. Lord Curzon followed stiff necked policies
    B. In 1905 partition of Bengal was decided
    C. Japan was defeated miserably by Russia
    D. Indians abroad were being humiliated
    E. The people of India were suffering from groaning poverty