The Franchise Committee 1918-19

In examiing the above questions the Committee will have regard 'co the decision of the Government of India as to areas which are to be the subject of special treatment (paragraph 199).2 taking our enquiry we hry borne in mind the observations and recommenu-tions contained in the follcwing paragraphs of the Joint Report of Relevant portion: of the Report on Indian Your Excenency and the Secretary o [...] 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 the electoral system and of social conditions as they then exist. [...] In the provinces of Bombay Bengal the United Provinces the Pun: ab 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 wnich the compact fixed. [...] In the Madras presidency the non-Bralmians (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 aid we are we think well within the mark in estimating that the non-Brahman (again -using t [...] Thus in addition to the taluqdars of Oudh we have recommended special representation to the zamindars of Bengal Madras and Bihar and Orissa the sardars of Gujarat and the Deccan and the jagirdars of Sind (in the Bombay presidency).