The Poona Pact traded Untouchable separate electorates for reserved constituencies

Evidence

The Communal Award, also known as the Ramsay Macdonald Award after the British Prime Minister, issued on 16 August 1932, was the result of the Second Round Table Conference (September–December 1931) that granted separate electorates to minorities in the dominion of India. Besides Muslims and Sikhs, the Depressed Classes were also granted a separate electorate for twenty years. The award granted a double vote to Untouchables that allowed them to choose their own representatives from special constituencies, as well as to cast their vote in general constituencies. The Congress and Gandhi opposed this, and Gandhi went on indefinite hunger strike in Poona jail. A compromise was reached with the signing of the Poona Pact on 24 September 1932, under which the Untouchables were allotted reserved constituencies but not separate electorates. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 1047

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies the mechanics of the Communal Award’s double vote and what the Poona Pact actually replaced it with.
• ADDENDUM: Directly relevant to the reader’s core interest in how caste annihilation plans were implemented and then politically curbed in 1932.