India Act, 1935

The Government of India Act was one of the important positive outcomes of the Civil Disobedience Movement. The key features of the Act were provincial autonomy and dyarchy at the centre. The Act provided for an all India Federation with provinces, Chief commissioner’s provinces and all those Princely states which wished to join the federation. The Act also provided autonomy to the provinces.

All the subjects were transferred to the control of Indian ministers. Dyarchy that was in operation in provinces was now extended to the central government. The franchise, based on property was extended though only about ten percent of the population enjoyed the right to vote. By this Act Burma was separated from India.

(a) Congress Ministries and their Work The Government of India Act was implemented with the announcement of elections in . The Congress immensely benefited because of the Civil Disobedience Movement. The Congress called off its programme of boycott of legislature and contested elections. It emerged victorious in the lathi charge that led to Lala Lajpat Rai’s death was assassinated.

Bhagat Singh along with B.K. Dutt threw a smoke bomb inside the