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NDA 1 2025 GAT, question 55

Topic: History

Q55

In British India, which one among the following Acts permitted detention without trial for up to two years?

  1. (a) Regulating Act, 1773
  2. (b) Rowlatt Act, 1919Correct answer
  3. (c) Pitt’s India Act, 1784
  4. (d) Government of India Act, 1935

Solution.

Answer: (b) Rowlatt Act, 1919

  1. The Rowlatt Act of 1919 extended repressive wartime powers, including detention without trial for up to two years.
  2. The other listed Acts chiefly concerned the structure and supervision of government rather than this particular emergency power.