◇ It provided (for the first time) for the association of Indians with the executive councils of the Viceroy and Governors.
◇ Satyendra Prasad Sinha became the first Indian to join the Viceroy’s executive council. He was
appointed as the Law Member.
◇ It introduced a system of communal representation for Muslims by accepting the concept of ‘separate electorate’.
◇ Under this, the Muslim members were to be elected only by Muslim voters. Thus, the Act ‘legalized communalism’ and Lord
Minto came to be known as the Father of Communal Electorate.
◇ It also provided for the separate representation of presidency corporations, chambers of commerce, universities and zamindars
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