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Government of India Act 1935 (Original Text)

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Official statutory text for the constitutional framework that introduced provincial autonomy and shaped the 1937 Bengal election.

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1937

Bengal Provincial Election and Coalition Ministry

The 1937 provincial election in Bengal, held under the 1935 constitutional framework, produced fragmented outcomes that required coalition bargaining. A. K. Fazlul Huq's ministry emerged through cross-party negotiation rather than single-party dominance. The episode highlighted class, communal, and regional tensions within representative politics and influenced the constitutional path toward the 1940s partition debates.