The Act authorized the British government to imprison any person without trial and conviction in a court of law, leading to widespread protest and condemnation across India.
The ‘Revolutionary and Anarchical Crimes Act’ was popularly known as the _____.
Asked in GPSC Prelims CSP 1 2023 · Topic: Rowlatt Act and Jallianwala Bagh Massacre (1919) (Provisions of the Anarchical and Revolutionary Crimes Act, 1919 (Rowlatt Act))
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Answer: D. Rowlatt Act
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