Communal Awards to grant separate electorates to minority communities in India, including Muslims, Sikhs and Dalits was given by_:
Communal Awards to grant separate electorates to minority communities in India, including Muslims, Sikhs and Dalits was given by_:
[A]Ramsay MacDonald
[B]Winston Churchill
[C]Stanley Baldwin
[D]Austen Chamberlain
Ramsay MacDonald
The Communal Award was given by the then British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald on 16 August 1932. According to it, separate representation was to be provided for the Muslims, Sikhs, Christians, Anglo- Indian, etc. The depressed classes were assigned a number of seats to be filled by election from special constituencies in which voters belonging to the depressed classes could only vote.