- Indian Council Act 1892 (Lord Cross Act, Viceroy Lansdowne)
- first time grain of indirect elections: indirectly elected members in ILC and PLC. It was not election, but selection.
- local bodies sent names, from which viceroy and gov selected candidates
- ILC & PLC expanded
- first time, questions would be asked to executive
- but no discussion to answer or supplementary questions
- no resolution by opposition and no voting on govt resolution
- opposition = non officer members
- gov could make laws w/o ILC or PLC
- first time budget discussion allowed, but no voting or amendments
- Imperial/PCS created from CCS; Statutory Civil Services was abolished
- no elected majority
- no conduct of proper indirect elections
- expansion of ILC & PLC might may have happened but that was dissatisfactory
- no powerful councils with no constitutionalism
Reaction
- now moderates began demanding Self Government like Australia, canada
- gave the Drain Theory