Read the following extract carefully and answer the questions that follow :
‘‘I believe separate electorates will be suicidal to the minorities’’
During the debate on 27 August, 1947, Govind Ballabh Pant said :
I believe separate electorates will be suicidal to the minorities and will do them tremendous harm. If they are isolated for ever, they can never convert themselves into a majority and the feeling of frustration will cripple them even from the very beginning. What is it that you desire and what is our ultimate objective ? Do the minorities always want to remain as minorities or do they ever expect to form an integral part of a great nation and as such to guide and control its destinies ? If they do, can they ever achieve that aspiration and that ideal if
they are isolated from the rest of the community ? I think it would be extremely dangerous for them if they were segregated from the rest of the community and kept aloof in an air-tight compartment where they would have to rely on others even for the air they breathe ... The minorities if they are returned by separate electorates can never have any effective voice.
(15.1) Why did some leaders think that there should be separate electorates for minorities ?
(15.2) Why were some nationalists against the demand of separate electorates ?
(15.3) Why did Govind Ballabh Pant consider separate electorates harmful for the minorities ?
Answers
Answer:
The Limitation Law was passed by the British to check the accumulation of interests of time and the exploitation of ryots by the moneylenders. According to the Limitation Law, the validity of the loan bonds signed between ryots and money lenders would be only three years.
It was considered as the symbol of oppression because:
• It made the life of peasants miserable. The moneylenders turned the bond upside down and tricked ryots by forcing them to sign a new bond after every three years, wherein the unpaid balance was entered as the principal amount. Thus, the unpaid balance piled up and the debt mounted over time.
• The ryots were illiterate and weak. They were not strong enough to resist this system of bonds. Moneylenders entered fictitious figures in bonds, acquired the peasants’ harvest at low prices, and ultimately took over peasants’ property. Thus, the new system turned out to be oppressive.
• Since moneylenders refused to give loans without legal bonds, the peasants were trapped in a vicious circle from which it was impossible to get out. They feared every written word in the document and thus, their life was made disastrous.
Explanation:
Pls mark as branliest pls