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the Government of India Bill was passing through Committee in the House of Commons last year, considerable uneasiness was expressed by members in reference to the future position of aboriginal and backward peoples, the hill and jungle tribes, in the new constitution. The Bill proposed to set up machinery for the protection of backward peoples by the ‘exclusion’ or ‘partial exclusion’ of selected areas from the jurisdiction of the provincial legislatures. Those people to whom the first of these two forms of protection was to apply were relegated to the authority of the Governor, the ministers having no executive powers within such tracts; while those in areas ‘partially excluded’, though still entitled to representation in their respective provincial assemblies, were not to be affected by legislative action, except at the discretion of the provincial Governor. The areas to which the application of ‘exclusion’ or ‘partial exclusion’ was considered to be both’ desirable and feasible were recited in the Sixth Schedule appended to the Bill.
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Aborigines and Administration in the New India. Nature 137, 337–339 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137337a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/137337a0