Some interesting context about voting in Bombay during the first elections held in independent India (Source: India After Gandhi by Ramchandra Guha): ___________________ One place in which there was especially brisk polling was Bombay. Delhi was where the rulers lived, but this island metropolis was Indias financial capital. It was also a very politically aware city. Altogether, 900,000 residents of Bombay, or 70 per cent of the city’s electorate, exercised their democratic right on election day. The workers came in far greater numbers as compared to the fashionable middle class. Thus, reported the Times of India, ‘in the industrial areas voters formed long queues long before the polling stations opened, despite the particularly cold and dewy morning. In contrast to this, at the WIAA Club [in Malabar Hill], which housed two polling stations, it appeared as if people straggled in for a game of tennis or bridge and only incidentally to vote’
Posted on: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 22:04:41 +0000
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