Indian Constitutional Reforms Reports of the Southborough Committees and Government of India’s Despatches on Them

In examining the above questions the Committee will have regard to the decision of the Government of India as to the areas which are to be the subject of special treatment (paragraph 199).2 3. In making our enquiry we have borne in mind the observations and recommendations contained in the following paragraphs of the Joint Report of Relevant portions of the Report on Indian Your Excellency and th [...] Whilst fully apprciating the object of those who advocate this measure as an aid to the emancpation of women we have decided not to recommend the extension of the suffrage to them but are of opinion that at the next revision (as cotemplated by the Joint Report) of the constitutions of the councils the matter should be reconsidered in the light of the experience gained of the working of [...] In the provinces of Bombay Bengal the United Provinces the.Punjab and Bihar and Orissa the local governments recommended us to adhere to the compact whilst the Madras government provided in the first of its alternative schemes approximately the proportion of Muhammadan representation which the compact fixed. [...] Calcutta the Bengali domiciled commnity of Bihar and Orissa the Ahoms of Assam the Mahars of the Central Provinces the Uriyas of Madras and the Parsis of Bombay. [...] In the Madras presidency the non-Brahmans (omitting the depressed or untouchable classes) outnumber the Brahmans in the proportion of :about 22 to 1. We have made an estimate of the relative proportions of these communities in regard to the number of voters on the franchise recommended for the presidency and we are we think well within the mark in estimating that the non-Brahman (again using th