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The Montagu–Chelmsford Reforms or more concisely known as the Mont–Ford Reforms, were introduced by the colonial government to introduce self-governing institutions gradually in British India. The reforms take their name from Edwin Montagu , the Secretary of State for India from 1917 to 1922, and Lord Chelmsford , the Viceroy of India ...
In 1925, the Liberals joined the Swaraj Party to demand a Round Table Conference to discuss constitutional reforms. [1] The Liberals urged in advance that the Statutory Commission, scheduled under the terms of the Indian Reform Act of 1919 to review the case for further Indian constitutional advance, have both British and Indian members.
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The Indian Statutory Commission, also known as the Simon Commission, was a group of seven members of the British Parliament under the chairmanship of Sir John Simon.The commission arrived in the Indian subcontinent in 1928 [1] to study constitutional reform in British India.
Consequently, in 1917, even as Edwin Montagu announced the new constitutional reforms, a sedition committee chaired by a British judge, Mr. S. A. T. Rowlatt, was tasked with investigating wartime revolutionary conspiracies and the German and Bolshevik links to the violence in India, [15] [16] [17] with the unstated goal of extending the ...
A reform law introduced by Chancellor Olaf Scholz's coalition government to abolish an exception to the 5% rule, a threshold parties must reach to enter the German parliament, is partly ...
The plot was ultimately thwarted after British intelligence uncovered the plot through German and Indian double agents in Europe and Southeast Asia. Mahendra Pratap (centre), President of the Provisional Government of India, at the head of the Mission with the German and Turkish delegates in Kabul, 1915. Seated to his right is Werner Otto von ...
New bill, passed without debate in India’s parliament, include controversial measures like expanding detention in police custody from current 15-day limit to up to 90 days