dyarchy

NOUN
  1. a form of government having two joint rulers
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How To Use dyarchy In A Sentence

  • This system of dyarchy was abolished by the Government of India Act, which gave the provincial assemblies full responsibility for government.
  • At some schools, I am told, there is a sort of dyarchy. Surprised by Joy
  • At the center, the act essentially provided for the establishment of dyarchy, but it also provided for a federal system that included the princes. The British Raj
  • The council was reorganized along functional lines in a system similar to British dyarchy. 3. Laos and Cambodia
  • Governors, of treating the two wings of their Government as equally associated with them in a common task of governance, has robbed the distinction between "reserved" and "transferred" subjects, if not of all reality, at any rate of the invidious appearance of discrimination which might otherwise have attached to the word "dyarchy. India, Old and New
  • Two years later that policy was partly brought to fruition in the Montagu-Chelmsford reforms when dyarchy, that is to say a dual system of government, was introduced into the provinces, whereby the Governors ruled their provinces with the aid of Cabinets, chosen from Indian Legislatures, but at the same time certain subjects were reserved and among them law and order, so that there might not be too abrupt a transition from unitarian government to responsible government in the provinces. Changing India
  • That, of course, again is dyarchy of the same kind as was originally in force in the provinces and which proved unsuccessful. Changing India
  • Working the institutions introduced under dyarchy underscored the very different interests of urban and rural participants. 2. Southeast Asia
  • Further, they regarded it as decisive proof that the two superpowers were being drawn, however reluctantly, into the creation of a world-wide dyarchy.
  • Under the “dyarchy” principle, important matters were “reserved” for the governor and the appointed British members of his executive council; the less important (sanitation, education, agriculture, etc.) were to be “transferred” to the Indian members. 1918-19
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