UPSC History Optional · Paper II · 2025 · Q1(d) · 10 marks
“The significant feature of the Indian Councils Act of 1892 was the principle of election which it introduced, though the word ‘election’ was very carefully avoided in it.”
- Chapter
- Constitutional Developments in the Colonial India between 1858 and 1935
- Topic
- Indian Councils Acts of 1861 and 1892
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