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17 ago 1932 ano - Communal Award

Descrição:

- Provided separate electorate to depressed class, Muslims, Women, Europeans, Sikhs, Indian Christians, Anglo-Indians, Depressed Class, and even Marathas for some seats in Bombay

- Direct implication to the policy of "divide and rule"

Provisions:
* provincial legislatures - seats distribution on communal basis
* existing seats in provincial legislature to be doubled
* Muslims, wherever they were in minority to be granted a weightage
* Except in NWFP, 3% seats to be reserved for women in all the provinces
* Depressed class to be awarded status of minority
* Depressed class to get "double votes"

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Data:

17 ago 1932 ano
Agora
~ 93 years ago