The term Government of India Act refers to any one of a series of

Acts The Acts of the Apostles ( grc-koi, Πράξεις Ἀποστόλων, ''Práxeis Apostólōn''; la, Actūs Apostolōrum) is the fifth book of the New Testament; it tells of the founding of the Christian Church and the spread of its message ...

passed by the

Parliament of the United Kingdom The Parliament of the United Kingdom is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, the Crown Dependencies and the British Overseas Territories. It meets at the Palace of Westminster, London. It alone possesses legislative supremacy ...

to regulate the government of

British India The provinces of India, earlier presidencies of British India and still earlier, presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance on the Indian subcontinent. Collectively, they have been called British India. In one ...

, in particular: *

Government of India Act 1833 The Government of India Act 1833 (3 & 4 Will 4 c 85), or the Charter Act 1833, was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, later retitled as the Saint Helena Act 1833. It extended the royal charter granted to the East India Company for an ...

or Saint Helena Act, created the post of Governor-General of India *

Government of India Act 1858 The Government of India Act 1858 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (21 & 22 Vict. c. 106) passed on 2 August 1858. Its provisions called for the liquidation of the British East India Company (who had up to this point been ruling ...

, established India as a nation consisting of British India and princely states. * Government of India Act 1909 or Indian Councils Act 1909, brought about a limited increase in the involvement of Indians in the governance of British India * Government of India Act, 1912, modified the Indian Councils Act 1909 and undid the

Partition of Bengal (1905) The first Partition of Bengal (1905) was a territorial reorganization of the Bengal Presidency implemented by the authorities of the British Raj. The reorganization separated the largely Muslim eastern areas from the largely Hindu western are ...

* Government of India Act, 1915, a consolidation into a single Act of most of the existing Acts of Parliament concerning Indian government *

Government of India Act 1919 The Government of India Act 1919 (9 & 10 Geo. 5 c. 101) was an Act of Parliament, Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was passed to expand participation of Indians in the government of British Indian Empire, India. The Act embodied ...

, passed to expand participation of Indians in the government of India * Government of India Act 1921 or Round Table Conferences, a series of conferences to discuss constitutional reforms in India *

Government of India Act 1935 The Government of India Act, 1935 was an Act adapted from the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It originally received royal assent in August 1935. It was the longest Act of (British) Parliament ever enacted until the Greater London Authority ...

, never fully implemented, served as part of the constitutional basis of India and Pakistan

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