Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

History

Chapter

Modern India: Framing the Constitution

Question:

Read the passage and answer the questions:

As the demand for representation grew, the British had been forced to introduce a series of constitutional reforms. A number of Acts were passed (1909, 1919, and 1935), gradually enlarging the space for Indian participation in provincial governments. The executive was made partly responsible to the provincial legislature in 1919, and almost entirely so under the Government of India Act of 1935.

Montague-Chelmsford Reforms were introduced in which year?

Options:

1909

1919

1935

1937

Correct Answer:

1919

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option 2 - 1919

Montague-Chelmsford Reforms were introduced in 1919.

Edwin Montague was the author of the Montague-Chelmsford Reforms of 1919 which allowed some form of representation in provincial legislative assemblies.