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The Gandhian phase 1915-1939

Communal Award, Poona Pact and the Harijan campaign 1932-34

Ramsay MacDonald's Communal Award August 1932: separate electorates extended to depressed classes
Fast unto death at Yerwada September 1932; Poona Pact with Ambedkar: joint electorates with 148 reserved provincial seats and 18 percent at the centre
All India Anti-Untouchability League led by Gandhi (Harijan Sevak Sangh, G.D. Birla president), Harijan weekly, Harijan tour 1933-34, temple entry bill