9. Draft Constitution as published in the Gazette of India, dated 26th February 1948 with Dr. Ambedkar’s letter dated 21st February 1948 to Dr. Rajendra Prasad,President of the Constituent Assembly of India - Page 282

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meanings hereby respectively assigned to them, that is to say—

(a) “agricultural income” means agricultural

income as defined for the purposes of the enactments relating to Indian income-tax; 5

(b) “an Anglo-Indian” means a person whose

father or any of whose other male pro genitors in the male line is or was of

European descent but who is domiciled

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born within such territory of parents

habitually resident therein and not estab lished there for temporary purposes only;

(c) “an Indian Christian” means a person who professes any form of the Christian religion and is not a European or an Anglo-Indian;

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(d) “borrow” includes the raising of money by the grant of annuities, and “loan” shall be construed accordingly; 20

(e) “Chief Justice” includes in relation to a High Court a Chief Judge;

(f) “corporation tax” means any tax on income, 25 so far as that tax is payable by companies and is a tax in the case of which the following conditions are fulfilled:—

(i) that it is not chargeable in respect of agricultural income; (ii) that no deduction in respect of the tax paid by companies is, by any enactments which may apply to the tax, authorised to be made from dividends payable by the companies to individuals ; (iii) that no provision exists for taking the tax so paid into account in computing for the purposes of Indian income-tax the total income of individuals receiving such dividends, or in computing the Indian income-tax payable by, or refundable to, such individuals;

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(g) “corresponding Province” or “corresponding State” means in cases of doubt such Province or State as may be determined