India’s political settlement was forced to accommodate social divisions

Evidence

What is the significance of the Communal Award, with its allocation of political power in defined proportions to diverse classes and communities? In my view, its significance lies in this: that political constitution must take note of social organisation. It shows that the politicians who denied that the social problem in India had any bearing on the political problem were forced to reckon with the social problem in devising the constitution. The Communal Award is, so to say, the nemesis following upon the indifference to and neglect of social reform. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 840

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Successive Indian regimes escalated Ayodhya from local dispute into national confrontation — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 408