Q. The Poona Pact aimed at :
Solution:
- The Poona Pact refers to an agreement between B. R. Ambedkar & Gandhiji on the reservation of electoral seats for the depressed classes in the legislature of then British India.
- It was made on the 24th of September 1932 at Yerwada Central Jail in Poona and was signed by Madan Mohan Malviya, Ambedkar and some other leaders as a means to end the fast that Gandhi was undertaking in jail as a protest against the decision by British Prime Minister Ramsay Macdonald to give separate electorates to depressed classes for the election of members of provincial legislative assemblies in British India. * They finally agreed upon 148 seats.
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