Which of the following sought to change the character of Indian Government from Unitary to federal?

a) Government of India Act, 1919

b) Government of India Act, 1935

c) India Council Act, 1909

d) Indian Independence Act, 1947

Ans-[B]

Explanation- Salient Features of the Government of India Act 1935 were as follows:

1. Abolition of provincial dyarchy and introduction of dyarchy at centre. Abolition of Indian Council and introduction of an advisory body in its place.
2. Provision for an All India Federation with British India territories and princely states.
3. Elaborate safeguards and protective instruments for minorities. Supremacy of British Parliament. Increase in size of legislatures, extension of franchise, division of subjects into three lists and retention of communal electorate.
4. Separation of Burma from India All India Federation
5. The proposed all India federation included 11 provinces of British India, 6 Chief Commissioners Provinces and those princely states who might accede to the federation.
6. For princely states, the accession to the Federation was voluntary.
7. The federation could not be established until:  number of states, the rulers whereof were entitled to choose not less than half of the 104 seats of the council of state , and The aggregate population whereof amounted to be at least one half of the total population of all the Indian states had acceded to the federation. The term on which a state joined the Federation were to be laid down in the Instrument of Accession.