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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.