Question

Detention of political prisoners without trial for two years was a feature of:
1. Rowlatt Act
2. East India Stock Dividend Redemption Act
3. British India Regulating Act
4. Governmentof India Act

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 1 : Rowlatt Act

The Correct Answer is Rowlatt Act.

 

• The Rowlatt Act 1919 gave the government enormous powers to repress political activities and allowed the detention of political prisoners without trial for two years.
• The Act would thus also enable the Government to suspend the right of habeas Corpus which had been the foundation of civil liberties in Britain.
• Mohammed Ali Jinnah, Madan Mohan Malaviya, and Mazhar-ul-Huq resigned from their membership of the central legislative council against the passage of the Rowlatt Act 1919.

 

• The East India Stock Dividend Redemption Act 1873 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
• It was passed in 1873, which formally dissolved the British East India Company.
• The Regulating Act, (1773) was legislation passed by the British Parliament for the regulation of the British East India Company's Indian territories.
• The term Government of India Act refers to any one of a series of Acts passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom to regulate the government of British India.