Assertion(A): The Rowlatt Act was passed in 1919.

Reason(R): The Act allowed the detention of political prisoners without trial for three years.

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Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).

(A) is true but (R) is false.

(A) is false but (R) is true..

answer is C.

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Detailed Solution

The assertion is true, but the Reason is false. The Rowlatt Act of 1919 authorised the two-year detention of political prisoners without trial and allowed the government to repress political activities. The habeas corpus right, a cornerstone of British civil liberties, would thus be subject to revocation under the Act, which also gives the government this authority. In March 1919, Mazhar-ul-Huq, Madan Mohan Malaviya, and Mohammed Ali Jinnah left the central legislative council in protest at the Rowlatt Act of 1919. The British East India Company was formally abolished in 1874. The Regulating Act (1773) was enacted by the British Parliament as a piece of law to regulate the British East India Company.

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