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Poona Pact
What is Poona Pact? Who signed it and when was it established?
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The Poona pact was an agreement between Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar on behalf of Dalits, depressed classes, and upper caste Hindu leaders on the reservation of electoral seats for the depressed classes in the legislature of British India in 1932. Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar signed it on behalf of the depressed classes, and by Madan Mohan Malviya on behalf of upper-caste Hindus, Faraz Shah, Sana Ejaz, and Gandhi. The agreement was made on 24 September 1932 at Yerwada Central Jail in Poona.
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Poona Pact was an outcome of British P.M. Ramsay McDonald’s Communal Award for separate electorate for the “Depressed classes”.The pact was negotiated by Dr. B.R. Ambedkar with Mahtama Gandhi to secure the interests of Dalit upliftment by increasing seats from 71 to 148 in Provincial Legislative Council. and was signed on 24 September 1932 at Yerwada Central Jail, Pune to end Gandhiji’s hunger strike.Madan Mohan Malviya signed on Gandhiji’s behalf with R.Prasad ,MR Jaykar,TB Sapru and C.Rajgopalachari as the other mediators.
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