Question

The Government of India Act of $1935$ borrowed its preamble from ________.

• A. The Constitution of the USA
• B. The Constitution of Australia
• C. From the Government of India Act of $1919$
• D. From Pitt's India Act

Answer 1

The correct option is C From the Government of India Act of $1919$

Government of India Act of 1935 was the last constitution of British India, before the country was divided, in 1947 and worked till the Indian Constitution was framed. It had no preamble of its own, but kept in place the 1919 Act's preamble even while repealing the remainder of that Act. Some of its features were:

1. Introduced provincial autonomy and dyarchy at centre.

2. It provided for the establishment of a federal court.

3. It gave a measure to form a federal form of government and an all India Federation.