![]() ![]() By the 1920s, programs of noncooperation and civil disobedience were placing pressure on the British to grant India self-governance in 1930 the Indian National Congress promulgated the Purna Swaraj resolution calling for complete independence. Direct rule was intended to increase Indian representation while preserving British imperial interests, but continued aggravations and injustices in the following decades created an increasingly adamant independence movement. The Indian Independence Act, which came decades into a movement that called for Indian independence, was set to take effect on August 15, 1947, less than a month after its enactment.ĭirect British rule of India began in 1858 as a consequence of the Indian Mutiny, a rebellion against the paramountcy of the East India Company. Indian Independence Act, (July 18, 1947), legislation passed by Parliament of the United Kingdom providing for the establishment of independent India and Pakistan in the territories of South Asia defined as “India” under the 1935 Government of India Act.
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