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Q. What is Reserved Constituency? Why is there a need for Reserved Constituency? ​

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Tribes in the Colonial Political System

The tribal society has a long history of self-governance, own conception of democracy, autonomy and tribal lifeworld. It was structured around communitarian and egalitarian democratic values, thereby facilitating the tribal lifeworld.

The colonial pattern of representation led to a paradoxical situation in Indian politics. On the one hand, it appears that seat allotment to the backward tribes was influenced by the concentration of tribal communities in certain pockets, such as the erstwhile provinces of Bihar, Assam and Odisha, where seven, nine and five seats, respectively, were reserved for them under the GOI Act, 1935.