IMPACT OF GOVERNMENT OF INDIA ACT, 1935 ON ELOCTORAL POLITICS AND ECONOMY OF COLONIAL ASSAM

RAKTIM JYOTI HAZARIKA

Volume : IV, Issue : VIII, August - 2015

IMPACT OF GOVERNMENT OF INDIA ACT, 1935 ON ELOCTORAL POLITICS AND ECONOMY OF COLONIAL ASSAM

Raktim Jyoti Hazarika

Abstract :

The inroduction of Government of India Act was one of the significant event in the constitutional history of modern India. The act was intended by the colonial rulers as a partial measure that would help to defuse the rising nationalist sentiments and it did help to channelize the protest. The operative part of the act of 1935 remained in force till August 15,1947, when it was amended by independence of india act, 1947. Though it was a very lengthy and complicated statue, it inflused the eloctoral politics of all over India. Even Assam was not exception to this. In thus paper an attempt has been made to have a look at the importance of the act in the politics and economy of Assam, what was the reactions of the provincial leaders regarding this act and in which way did it affect the overall history of colonial Assam.