Which Act for the first time made it possible for Indians to take some share in the administration of their country?

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Indian Councils Act, 1861. The Indian councils Act of 1961 made a beginning of representative institutions by associating Indian with the law-making process. It thus provided that the viceroy should nominate some Indian as non- official members of his expanded council in 1862, Lord Canning, the then viceroy, nominated three Indians to his legislative council-the Raja of Benaras, the Maharaja of Patiala and Sir Dinkar Rao.

Which Act for the first time made it possible for Indians to take some share in the administration of their country?

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