british india's montagu-chelmsford reforms of 1919, enacted in 1921, expanded the legislative council to include more elected indian members, and introduced the principle of dyarchy, whereby certain responsibilities, including agriculture, health, education, and local government, were transferred to elected ministers. however, the important portfolios like finance, police and irrigation were reserved with members of the governor's executive council. some of the prominent indian members of the executive council were chimanlal harilal setalvad, r. p. paranjpe, ghulam hussain hidayatullah, ali muhammad khan dehlavi, rafiuddin ahmed, siddappa totappa kambli, shah nawaz bhutto and sir cowasji jehangir.