Indian general election, 1926

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Indian general election, 1926
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105 seats contested
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Leader Motilal Nehru Madan Mohan Malaviya
Party SP NP
Seats won3822
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General elections were held in British India between 28 October and late November 1926 to elect members of the Imperial Legislative Council and the Provincial Legislative Councils. [1]

British Raj British rule in the Indian subcontinent, 1858–1947

The British Raj was the rule by the British Crown in the Indian subcontinent from 1858 to 1947. The rule is also called Crown rule in India, or direct rule in India. The region under British control was commonly called British India or simply India in contemporaneous usage, and included areas directly administered by the United Kingdom, which were collectively called British India, and those ruled by indigenous rulers, but under British tutelage or paramountcy, and called the princely states. The whole was also informally called the Indian Empire. As India, it was a founding member of the League of Nations, a participating nation in the Summer Olympics in 1900, 1920, 1928, 1932, and 1936, and a founding member of the United Nations in San Francisco in 1945.

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The Swaraj Party were victorious in Provincial Council elections in Bengal and Madras, and also made gains in Bihar and Orissa. However, at the national level the party saw their number of seats reduced. [2]

The Swaraj Party was established as the Congress-Khilafat Swaraj Party. It was a political party formed in India in January 1923 after the Gaya annual conference in December 1922 of the National Congress, that sought greater self-government and political freedom for the Indian people from the British Raj. It was inspired by the concept of Swaraj. In Hindi and many other languages of India, swaraj means "independence" or "self-rule." The two most important leaders were Chittaranjan Das, who was its president and Motilal Nehru, who was its secretary.

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Bihar State in Eastern India

Bihar is state in eastern India. It is the thirteenth-largest Indian state, with an area of 94,163 km2 (36,357 sq mi). The third-largest state by population, it is contiguous with Uttar Pradesh to its west, Nepal to the north, the northern part of West Bengal to the east, with Jharkhand to the south. The Bihar plain is split by the river Ganges, which flows from west to east. Three main regions converge in the state: Magadh, Mithila, and Bhojpur.

Results

Central Legislative Assembly

PartySeatsLeader
Swaraj Party 38 Motilal Nehru
Nationalist Party22 Madan Mohan Malaviya
Central Muslims and Allies18Sir Zulfiqar Ali Khan
Independents13 Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Minor parties, unattached independents, unknown5
Europeans9Sir Darcy Lindsay
Total105
Source: Schwartzberg Atlas [3]

Members of Central Legislative Assembly

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Officials

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Mariadas Ruthnaswamy CIE, KCSG (1885–1977) was a leading educationalist, statesman and a writer in Madras, India.

Elected Non-Officials

Satyendra Chandra Mitra was an Indian freedom fighter, who started his political career as a revolutionary in the Jugantar Party in 1916. He was elected the Chief Whip of the Swarajya Party in the Central Legislative Assembly. Later, he was imprisoned in Mandalay Jail in Burma along with Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose for his nationalist activities (1923–25). On being released, he was re-elected to Central Legislative Assembly in 1927. He was a Member of The Age of Consent Committee in 1927-28 that was composed of parliamentarians and determined the age girls and boys could marry. It became The Child Marriage Restraint Act in 1929 and is popularly referred to as the Sarda Act. Later he became the President of the Bengal Legislative Council in 1937. This was the Upper House of the Bengal Legislature. He passed away on 27 October 1942, leaving behind his wife Uma Mitra and only child, Aroti Dutt.

Sir Abdullah al-Mamun al-Suhrawardy was an Islamic scholar, barrister, and academic. He was the Tagore Law Lecturer in 1911 and did an enormous amount of important educational work.

Nilakantha Das Indian activist

Nilakantha Das was an orator, politician and social reformer born in the village Sri Ramchandrapur of Puri district, Bengal Presidency, British India. He was awarded an M. Phil. by the University of Calcutta. He denied a lucrative job under the British Raj and worked as a headmaster of Satyabadi High School. His speeches inspired the youth generation to fight against untouchability and other social evils.

Elected Members of Council of State

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Sir Pheroze Sethna was an Indian politician. He was a member of the Imperial Legislative Council and later a member of the Central Legislative Assembly and Council of State.

U. Rama Rao or U. Rama Rau was an Indian politician from the Madras Presidency. He belonged to the Indian National Congress.

C. Sankaran Nair Indian politician

Sir Chettur Sankaran Nair, CIE was the President of the Indian National Congress in 1897 held at Amravati. Until present he is the only Keralite to hold the post.

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References

  1. ↑ "Indian General Election. The Communal Issue., Hindu v. Moslem", The Times, 29 October 1926, p15, Issue 44415
  2. ↑ "The British Empire. Dominions in Conference", The Times, 1 January 1927, p5, Issue 44468
  3. ↑ "-- Schwartzberg Atlas -- Digital South Asia Library". dsal.uchicago.edu.
  4. ↑ Kumar, Ravindra (1995). Selected Works of Vithalbhai J. Patel: 1930–1932. ISBN   9788170994237.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 Indian Quarterly Register. 1926 https://archive.org/stream/indianquarterlyr035508mbp/indianquarterlyr035508mbp_djvu.txt.Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. ↑ The Indian Year Book. Bennett, Coleman & Company. 1828.
  7. ↑ The Council of State Debates Official Report Vol VII.
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