Note on the Tour of the Reforms Commissioner from 8th November to 7th December 1941 to Madras, Orissa, Assam, Bengal, Bihar
The demand for separate electorates
from smaller minorities appears to be growing along with their political
consciousness. The idea that was pressed on me by representatives of the
Justice Party in Madras that non-brahmins should have separate electorates to
save them from domination by the brahmins is ridiculous in theory, and the
answer in practice is obviously that The Justice Party should improve its
organisation and leadership. Majority Hindu opinion is of course, strongly
against separate electorates, and it is more often than not that an\y Hindu
with whom one talks will begin his observations on the constitutional problem
by blaming everything on separate electorates. Nevertheless, there is a
widespread recognition encouraged by the official policy of the Congress, that
if the Muslims insist on having separate electorates, they must have them.
- Shridev Sharma
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