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670 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
Sub-Committee, if it comes to consider the question this year, should have the requisite details before it.
I. E XTENT OF S PECIAL R EPRESENTATION
A. Special Representation in Provincial Legislature
(i) In Bengal, Central Provinces, Assam, Bihar and Orissa, Punjab and the United Provinces, the Depressed Classes shall have representation in proportion to their population as estimated by the Simon Commission and the Indian Central Committee.
(ii) In Madras the Depressed Classes shall have twenty-two per cent. representation.
(iii) In Bombay—
( a ) In the event of Sind continuing to be a part of the Bombay Presidency the Depressed Classes shall have sixteen per cent. representation.
( b ) In the event of Sind being separated from the Bombay Presidency the Depressed Classes shall enjoy the same degree of representation as the Presidency Muslims, both being equal in population.
B. Special Representation in the Federal Legislature
In both Houses of the Federal Legislature the Depressed Classes shall have representation in proportion of their population in India.
R ESERVATIONS
We have fixed this proportion of representation in the Legislatures on the following assumptions : —
(1) We have assumed that the figures for the population of the Depressed Classes given by the Simon Commission (Vol. I, p. 40) and the Indian Central Committee (Report, p. 44) will be acceptable as sufficiently correct to form a basis for distributing seats.
(2) We have assumed that the Federal Legislature will comprise the whole of India, in which case the population of the Depressed Classes in Indian States, in Centrally Administered Areas, and in Excluded Territories, besides their population in Governor’s Provinces, will form very properly an additional item in calculating the extent of representation of the Depressed Classes in the Federal Legislature.
(3) We have assumed that the administrative area of the Provinces of British India will continue to be what they are at present.
But if these assumptions regarding figures of population are challenged as some interested parties threaten to do, and if under a new census over which the Depressed Classes can have no control, the population of the Depressed Classes shows a lower proportion, or if the administrative areas of the Provinces are altered, resulting in disturbing the existing balance of population, the Depressed Classes reserve their right to revise their proportion of representation and even to claim weightage. In the same way, if the