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The Diarchy provided by the Montford reforms “certainly created suspicion without and frictions within.” Comment.
- UPSC 1995
- Constitutional Developments in Colonial India, 1858-1935
Dyarchy, the centrepiece of the Government of India Act, 1919, failed on two distinct fronts simultaneously — it never won the trust of Indian political opinion outside the constitutional structure, and it collapsed from internal administrative dysfunction within it.
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- Suspicion Without: The Nationalist Backdrop
- Frictions Within: The Administrative Dysfunction
- The Compounding External Shocks
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