The Central Legislature in British India, 192147. Mohammad Rashiduzzaman
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If we make a comparative study of uncontested seats in Muhammadan and non-Muhammadan constituencies, it was clear that except in 1926 and 1945, nearly half the Muslim seats were returned without contest. The number of uncontested Muslim seats in 1926 and 1945 were 7 and 8 respectively in the Assembly; it was, however, difficult to ascertain the precise reasons for a greater proportion of unopposed seats in the Muhammadan constituencies. However, several likely reasons were not difficult to perceive: before 1945, there was no country-wide attempt by the Muslim political organizations to contest the Central Legislature elections. Most of the Muslim members were returned as Independents; in the absence of party-politics, there was a greater scope for the prominent Independents to get through without contests in certain constituencies. There were a few provinces, for example, the Punjab and the U.P. that mainly returned unopposed candidates to the legislature: the relative backwardness of the Muslim community was one of the potential causes ← 44 | 45 → for such a tendency. Another possibility was that the constituencies returning unopposed candidates did not actually have any rival who could come forward to contest the locally dominant lawyer, landlord or businessman. What is more, the proportion of the Muslim candidates for contested seats was also generally lower than those of non-Muhammadan constituencies in most of the provinces. Such dearth of candidates in Muhammadan constituencies was, perhaps, the relatively smaller number of Muslims in the professions. Generally, most of the Muslim candidates were landed aristocrats.
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