What are the terms of the Poona Pact?

Answer in Brief

An agreement arrived between Gandhiji and Ambedkar came to be known as the ‘Poona Pact’.

The main terms of the Poona Pact were:-

The principle of separate electorates was abandoned. Instead, the principle of joint electorate was accepted with reservation of seats for the depressed classes.
Reserved seats for the depressed classes were increased from 71 to 148. In the Central Legislature, 18 percent of the seats were reserved.

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Chapter 1.08: Nationalism: Gandhian Phase - Exercises [Page 104]

Chapter 1.08 Nationalism: Gandhian Phase
Exercises | Q V 7. | Page 104

Assertion: The Congress attended the First Round Table Conference.

Reason: Gandhi-Irwin Pact enabled the Congress to attend the Second Round Table Conference.

Critically examine the Civil Disobedience Movement as the typical example of the Gandhian movement.

In Tamil Nadu C. Rajaji led the salt March from ______ to vedaranyam.

The congress resolved to fight for Puma Swaraj in 1929 under the presidentship of ______.

Gandhiji started the Harijan Sevak Sangh to work for the removal of ______.

Explain the Communal Award and Poona Pact of 1932.

The Indian Forest Act of ______ claimed the original ownership of forests was with the state.

The communists used their party as a platform to expose the ______.

______ was the forest area where the police forest and revenue officials harassed the Rampa tribals.

A special ______ team was sent to quell the uprisings of Rampa Adivasis in 1922-24.