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Rowlatt Act. |
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Answer» TheAnarchical and Revolutionary Crimes Act of 1919, popularly known as theRowlatt ActorBlack Act, was a legislative act passed by theImperial Legislative CouncilinDelhion 10 March 1919, indefinitely extending the emergency measures of preventive indefinite detention, incarceration without trial and judicial review enacted in theDefence of India Act 1915during the First World War. It was enacted in light of a perceived threat from revolutionary nationalist organisations of re-engaging in similarconspiracies as during the warwhich the Government felt the lapse of the DIRA regulations would enable. Passed on the recommendations of theRowlatt Committeeand named after its president, British judge SirSidney Rowlatt, this act effectively authorized the government to imprison any person suspected ofterrorismliving in the Raj for up to two years without a trial, and gave the imperial authorities power to deal with all revolutionary activities |
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