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Notes on The Government of India Act, 1935. The Montague-Chelmsford Reforms of 1919 had brought a large scale discontentment among the people of India. The Non-Cooperation Movement launched by Gandhi had fanned the fire of this discontentment.

In August 1935, the British gove3rnment announced the Government of India Act. The main provisions of this act were: India was to become a federation if more than 50 per cent of the Princely States decide to join it.