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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0746.00080.] With any set of \(r\) independent 1-forms \(\{\pi_ \alpha\mid\) \(\alpha=1,\dots,r\}\) on an \(r\)-parameter Lie group \(G\), the author associates a set of 2-forms \(\{\Pi_ \alpha\mid\) \(\alpha=1,\dots,r\}\) (the so-called Maurer-Cartan forms) which are nonlinear with respect to the former ones. By means of the pre-gauge transformations given by the class of non-homogeneous substitutions applied to \(\{\pi_ \alpha\}\) which preserve the Maurer-Cartan structure \(\{\Pi_ \alpha\}\), a theory of connections and curvature on \(G\), distinct from any theory of affine connections is developed, in accordance with the standard pattern. The fact that the group parameters are assumed to be functions of the coordinates of a given base manifold \(M\), gives rise to a bundle structure and to a process of projecting \(s\)-forms from \(G\) to \(M\). In the developed context, the pre-gauge transformations and the connection and curvature forms on \(G\) generate by direct projection the standard finite gauge transformations on \(M\) with the corresponding theory of gauge connections and curvature.