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What do you understand by Poona pact (5marks) |
| Answer» The\xa0Poona Pact\xa0refers to an agreement between Mahatma Gandhi and Babasaheb Ambedkar on behalf of depressed classes and upper caste Hindu leaders on the reservation of electoral seats for the depressed classes in the legislature of British India government. ... They finally agreed upon 147 electoral seats.\xa0The\xa0Poona Pact\xa0is\xa0significant\xa0in that it initiated a pattern of political compromise between “caste” Hindus and the Depressed Classes in the allocation of legislative representation and government jobs.\xa0The\xa0pact\xa0made the entire country morally responsible for the uplift of the depressed classes. As the concessions agreed to in the\xa0Poona Pact\xa0were precursors to the world\'s largest affirmative programme (reservation in legislature, public services and educational institutions) launched much later in independent India.\xa0Babasaheb Ambedkar\xa0and\xa0Mahatma Gandhi\xa0was signed 84 years ago on September 24, 1932. The agreement was signed by Pt Madan Mohan Malviya and Dr. B. R.\xa0Ambedkar\xa0and some Dalit leaders at Yerwada Central Jail in Pune, to break Mahathma Gandhi\'s fast unto death. | |