Legislative Assembly of the United Provinces

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The Legislative Assembly of the United Provinces was the lower house of the provincial legislature in British India, representing elected members from the United Provinces (now largely Uttar Pradesh) during the late colonial period.


Statements (41)
Predicate Object
instanceOf colonial-era institution
legislative assembly
lower house of a legislature
associatedWith Indian National Congress provincial politics
Indian nationalist movement
category Colonial India political institutions
Defunct lower houses of legislatures
Politics of the United Provinces
composition elected members
country British India
dissolvedAsConsequenceOf Indian independence in 1947
establishedUnder Government of India Act 1919
Government of India Act 1935
followed introduction of dyarchy in the provinces
function budget approval for the province
provincial law-making
questioning of the provincial executive
governmentSystem parliamentary system at the provincial level
hasJurisdiction United Provinces
territory now largely forming Uttar Pradesh
historicalRegion North India
houseType lower house
languageOfProceedings English
Hindustani
legalStatus statutory body created by an Act of the British Parliament
legislativeBodyFor United Provinces
locatedIn British India
United Provinces
meetsIn provincial capital of the United Provinces
oversightBy Governor of the United Provinces
parentOrganization British Indian provincial government
partOf Provincial Legislature of the United Provinces
provincial dyarchical government system
precededBy earlier nominated or limited representative councils in the United Provinces
relatedTo Council of State (upper house at the central level in British India)
Legislative Council of the United Provinces
replacedBy Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
subordinateTo Governor of the United Provinces
succeededBy legislature of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh
timePeriod late colonial period
typeOfElectoralSystem limited franchise under colonial rules

Referenced by (3)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Legislative Council of the United Provinces
coexistsWith
Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly ("United Provinces Legislative Assembly")
formerName
United Provinces
legislature

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