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Long Road to Democracy Chapter 1

Though the Nehru Report did not explicitly recommend
Universal adult suffrage is at present being successfully universal adult suffrage, it listed the idea under another
worked on a small scale in the elections to the Shromani section viz. other proposals. It cited, by the example of
Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee (Central Sikh Muslims in (undivided) Punjab, that the ratio of
Shrines Committee), which are held all over Punjab. Its enfranchisement (based on property qualification) did not
introduction on a larger scale only means a multiplication correspond to the population ratio of the communities in
of the machinery employed. We do not see why such provinces. It, therefore, proposed universal adult suffrage
multiplications with all the trouble and expense it as a way out of the anomaly, drawing upon the Ceylon
involves should be considered unreasonable when it is
Reforms Commission's recommendations. The report
necessary for the purpose of laying the foundation upon
praised the practice of universal adult suffrage prevalent
which the responsible government rests.
in the Shiromani Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee
- Nehru Report (1928)
(Central Sikh Shrine Committee).

Cries of “Simon, Go Back” rang out in every city

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