Indian Polity 1 Flashcards
Idea to have the constitution was given by ____.
MN Roy
First Chief Justice
Sir Elijah Impey
Current Chief Justice
N Venkata Ramana (April 2021)
This act stated that the salaries of members on the Board of Control had to be paid from Indian revenues.
Charter Act, 1793
First Governor-General of India
William Bentick
First Indian to join the Viceroy’s Executive Council
Satyendra Prasad Sinha
Separate electorates for the Muslims were implemented in India from _____.
1909, under Morley Minto reforms
- increased the size of legislative councils, both at provincial & central level
The ___ were reforms introduced by the colonial government in British India to introduce self-governing institutions gradually in India.
Montagu–Chelmsford Reforms [Govt. of India Act, 1919]
- central legislature to have bicameral legislature for first time
- provinces to follow dyarchy system
____ was set up to inquire the working of the Govt. of India Act, 1919.
Simon Commission, 1927
____ Act abolished provincial dyarchy and introduced dyarchy at centre.
Government of India Act, 1935
- and provision for an All India Federation with British India territories and princely states.
Who proposed Indian dominion status?
Gandhi
Dominion status was proposed in ____.
1942
- Cripps Mission time
The partition plan was put forth by ____.
Lord Mountbatten [Mountbatten Plan]
Who was in charge of External Affairs in India’s interim govt in 1946?
Nehru
Who was in charge of Home & Information and Broadcasting in India’s interim govt in 1946?
Vallabhai Patel
Rajendra Prasad was in charge of ____ in India’s interim govt in 1946.
Food & Agriculture
India’s constituent assembly was formed in ____.
November, 1946
- Total strength: 389
India’s constituent assembly held its first meeting on ____.
9th Dec, 1946
It took this long to make our Constitution.
2 years, 11 months, 18 days
First president on Constituent Assembly
Sachidanand Sinha
- then Rajendra Prasad & HC Mukherjee became P & VP
___ was the constitutional advisor of the assembly in 1946.
BN Rao
Constitution was passed on ____.
26th Nov, 1949
___ headed the Union Powers Committee.
Nehru
- also the Union Constitution Committee & State Committees
___ headed the Provincial Constitutional Committee.
Sardar Patel
___ headed the Drafting Committee.
Ambedkar
- appointed on 29 Aug, 1947
___ headed the Rules of Procedure and Steering Committee.
Rajendra Prasad
Ambedkar submitted the first draft of the constitution on ____.
21 Feb, 1948
First constitution originally had ___ articles.
395
- plus 22 parts & 8 schedules
- lengthiest written constitution
The current constitution is made up of:
Preamble, 465 articles, 25 parts, 12 schedules
Poorna Swaraj day was celebrated on ____.
26 Jan, 1930
- passing of resolution in Lahore session
India has ___ style government.
Parliamentary
The Linguistic Provinces Commission set up by Rajendra Prasad in June 1948 was also called ____.
Dhar Commission
- to see if states were to be reorganized based on linguistics
- rejected idea
___ was the first linguistic state created:
Andhra Pradesh
- Kurnool was first capital
The States Reorganisation Commission was also known as ____.
Fazl Ali Commission
____ called the preamble, the identity card of the constitution.
NA Palkivala
The question of whether the preamble could be amended appeared here:
Keshavananda Bharati Case, 1973
- been amended once to add words: secular, socialist & integrity
India has ___ states and ___ UTs.
28 States, 8 Union territories
