Gandhi, Ambedkar and British policy on the communal award

被引:6
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Biswas, Sujay
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Gandhi; Ambedkar; Communal Award; Poona Pact; separate electorates; Dalits;
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10.1177/2348448918759867
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K [历史、地理];
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06 ;
摘要
It has now become a fashion among many historians, notably from the West, to denounce Gandhi's fast and the Poona Pact of 1932 as a great betrayal of the Untouchables'. This view essentially overlooks the constant effort of British imperialism to divide the Indian people into a number of special-interest groups at loggerheads with each other and so weaken the National Movement. This paper weighs the critics' assertions in the light of the British Government's own statements and those of the leaders of the Depressed Castes. It is also forgotten that the Poona Pact greatly increased Depressed Castes' representation; and that no separate electorates have been ever established in Western democracies to avoid majoritarian rule.
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