Answer to Question #149728 in History for Jasmin Nicole

Question

1. What law provided for the tax sales on salt in India?

2. What principle adheres to the process of refusing to obey an unjust law?

3. What law granted the Indian local self-government?

4. What act granted the British the right to suppress revolutionary acts against its government?

5. What incident in Indian history ignited the continuous clamor of Indians for self-rule?

Answer 1

1. Britain's Salt Act of 1882
2. Rawlsian Principle of Political Obligation
3. The Constitutional Act, passed in 1992 by the Narasimha Rao government, came into force on April 24, 1993. It was meant to provide constitutional sanction to establish "democracy at the grassroots level as it is at the state level or national level".
4. In 1774, the British Parliament passed a series of laws collectively known as the Intolerable Acts, with the intent to suppress unrest in colonial Boston by closing the port and placing it under martial law.
5. The historical and ongoing injustices committed against the Indians.