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UPSC CSE Prelims 2016 · GS Paper I · Question 64 · Constitutional development & the transfer of power

मॉन्टेग्यू-चेम्सफोर्ड प्रस्ताव किससे संबंधित थे?

UPSC Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination 2016, General Studies Paper I, Question 64 — Constitutional development & the transfer of power.

मॉन्टेग्यू-चेम्सफोर्ड प्रस्ताव किससे संबंधित थे?

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The Montague-Chelmsford Proposals were related to

(a) social reforms · (b) educational reforms · (c) reforms in police administration · (d) constitutional reforms

उत्तर और व्याख्या · explanation in English

Answer: (d) सांविधानिक सुधार

The Montague-Chelmsford Proposals produced the constitutional reforms of 1919, which allowed some form of representation in provincial legislative assemblies and made the provincial executive partly responsible to the provincial legislature.

  • ✓ (d) NCERT calls Edwin Montagu the author of the Montague-Chelmsford Reforms of 1919, which allowed some representation in provincial legislative assemblies, and records that the executive was made partly responsible to the provincial legislature in 1919.
  • ✗ (a) The proposals changed how India was governed, not its social customs.
  • ✗ (c) They did not deal with police administration or with education; they were about the structure of provincial government.

Remember · Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms (1919): constitutional reform that made the provincial executive partly responsible to elected provincial legislatures.

📘 Read it in NCERT: Class 12 Themes in Indian History, Part III, Ch 4 (practise this chapter) · Class 12 Themes in Indian History, Part III, Ch 4 (practise this chapter)

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Question and answer: UPSC's official GS Paper I (2016, Series A) — paper ↗ · answer key ↗. Explanation: Minimalist IAS, checked 30 Sept 2026 (how we verify). ·

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