Question

A Short notes on COMMUNAL AWARD OF 1932

Answer 1

COMMUNAL AWARD OF 1932 :-

• On August 4, 1932 the communal award was announced by Ramsay MacDonald (The then British Prime Minister).

• This is meant for providing extending separate electorate to Scheduled Castes.

• In fact the concept of separate electorate for depresses classes was raised by Dr. B.R.Ambedkar.

• The proposal was accepted by the British and announced the Communal award.

• Gandhi opposed this on the grounds that this proposal would disintegrate the Hindu society.

• Mahatma Gandhi began indefinite hunger strike in Yeravada jail (Pune, Maharashtra) against the separate electorate for Scheduled Castes.

Answer 2

Answer:

The Communal Award was made by the British prime minister Ramsay MacDonald on 16 August 1932 and it extended separate electorate. ... The separate electorate was introduced in [Indian council Act 1909] for Muslims and extended to Sikhs, Indian Christians, Anglo-Indians and Europeans by Government of India Act 1919.