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Arms Act

The Arms Act tightened colonial regulation of firearms and became one of several measures criticised by early Indian nationalists.

Title page of the official collection of Acts passed by the Governor General of India in Council in 1878
Direct statutory-volume context for the Arms Act. The rendered page is the collection title page, not the specific text of Act XI itself. · Credit: Government of British India · License: Public domain

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