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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 (pargraph 199.) 3. In making our enquiry we have borne in mind the observations and recommendations contained in the folloRelevant portions of the ing paragraphs of the Joint Report of Your Report on Indian Consttutiona [...] Whilst fully appreciating the object of those who advocate this measure as an aid to the emancipation of women we have decided not to recomend the extension of the suffrage to them but are of opinion that at the next revision (as contemplated -by the Joint Report) of the costitutions of the councils the matter should be reconsidered in the light of the experience gained of the working of t [...] In the provinces of Bombay Bengal the United 'Provinces the Punjab and Bihar and Orissa the local goverments 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. [...] In the Madras presidency the non-Brahmans (omitting the depressed or utouchable 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 recomended for the presidency and we are we think well within the mark in estimating that the non-Brahman (again using [...] Thus in addition to the taludars of Oudh we have recommended special representation to the zamin-.dars of Bengal Madras and Bihar and Orissa the sardars of Gujarat and the Deccan and the jagirdars of Sind (in the Bombay presidency).