Q. What is the correct meaning of the word DYARCHY?
Answer: A few subjects were transferred to the Provincial Ministries and the rest retained by the Executive Council
Notes: Dyarchy is a system of double government introduced by the Government of India Act 1919. It marked the first introduction of the democratic principle into the executive branch of the British administration of India.
Sir Lionel Curtis is known as the father of Dyarchy in India. The principle of dyarchy was a division of the executive branch of each provincial government into authoritarian and popularly responsible sections. The first was composed of executive councillors, appointed, as before, by the crown.

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