POLITICSTHE HINDU NATIONAL
On the approach and outlook of Tamil Nadu’s Scheduled Caste leaders in late 1940s
In the 1946 provincial elections, the Congress outperformed the Scheduled Castes Federation (SCF) founded by B.R. Ambedkar in the Madras Presidency, winning 27 of 30 seats allocated to Scheduled Castes.
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