Measures announced in 1909 to increase the participation of Indians in their country’s government. Introduced by John Morley (1838–1923), secretary of state for India, and Lord Minto (1845–1914), viceroy of India, they did not affect the responsibility of government, which remained in British hands, but did give Indians wider opportunities to be heard.
The term Government of IndiaAct refers to several Acts passed by the British Parliament to regulate the government of British India, in particular:
Government of IndiaAct 1833 (also known as the Charter Act 1833), which created a Governor-General of India
Government of IndiaAct 1935, which proposed a federal structure for Indian government which, in the event, never came into operation, although it was adopted as the basic constitutional structure of India and Pakistan following Partition
In 1398 the Mongol conqueror Tamerlane invaded India, sacking Delhi and massacring its inhabitants.
India supplied wheat and other goods to British forces east of Suez, and with the loss of trade with Germany and the other Central Powers and the continuance of heavy taxation, the economic cost of the war was evident.
Although India had agreed to hold a plebiscite in Jammu and Kashmīr state, it claimed that the plebiscite was dependent on the withdrawal of Pakistani forces from the region, and that the vote of the Jammu and Kashmīr state legislature in the mid-1950s to integrate fully into India made a plebiscite unnecessary.
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