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- INTRO
- 2500- 1700 BC
- 1500 BC -600BC
- 600 BC-300 BC
- 400 BC TO 200 BC
- 230 BC to 230 CE
- 300 BC To 300 CE
- Early 300 CE TO 600 CE
- 275 CE- - 897CE
- (543- 757 AD) and then (975-1189 AD)
- 593 CE - 982 CE
- 850 CE to 1279 CE
- 952 CE to 1343 CE
- 180 CE to 624 CE
- 700CE to 1200CE
- 1206- 1526 CE
- 1540 CE to 1555 CE
- 1526 CE to 1707 CE
- 1336- 1646 AD
- 1347 CE to 1527 CE
- 1773-1858
- 1858- 1947
- 1947 - Present
- It provided for the establishment of a public service commission. Hence, a Central Public Service Commission was set up in 1926 for recruiting civil servants
- It loosened the central control over the provinces by demarcation and separating the central and provincial subjects.
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It further divided the provincial subjects into two parts—transferred
and reserved.
- The transferred subjects were to be administered by the governor with the aid of ministers responsible to the legislative Council.
- The reserved subjects, on the other hand, were to be administered by the governor and his executive council without being responsible to the legislative Council.
- The central and provincial legislatures were authorised to make laws on their respective subjects. However, the structure of government continued to be centralised and unitary.
- The Indian Legislative Council was replaced by a bicameral legislature consisting of an Upper House (Council of State) and a Lower House (Legislative Assembly).The majority of members of both the Houses were chosen by direct election.
- It required that the three of the six members of the Viceroy’s executive Council (other than the commander-in-chief) were to be Indian.
- It extended the principle of communal representation by providing separate electorates for Sikhs, Indian Christians, Anglo-Indians and Europeans.
- It granted franchise to a limited number of people on the basis of property, tax or education.
- It created a new office of the High Commissioner for India in London and transferred to him some of the functions hitherto performed by the Secretary of State for India.
