The Montague-Chelmsford Proposals were related to
Answer & explanation
Answer: (d) constitutional reforms
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)
Sources
- NCERT Class 12 · Themes in Indian History, Part III, Chapter 4 “Edwin Montague (left) was the author of the Montague-Chelmsford Reforms of 1919 which allowed some form of representation in provincial legislative assemblies.”
- NCERT Class 12 · Themes in Indian History, Part III, Chapter 4 “The executive was made partly responsible to the provincial legislature in 1919, and almost entirely so under the Government of India Act of 1935.”
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