Mahendras monthly magazine published this article 59 conclusionin his memorandum to the simon commission in 1928 the father of the indian constitution b.r. ambedkar said those who insist on literacy as a test and insist upon making it a condition precedent to enfranchisement in my opinion commit two mistakes. their first mistake consists in their belief that an illiterate person is necessarily an unintelligent person…their second mistake lies in supposing that literacy necessarily imports a higher level of intelligence or knowledge than what the illiterate possesses….this decision should force a recasting of the debate on finding ways and means by which elected bodies are made more representative. this is because to mandate paternalistically what makes a person a good candidate goes against the spirit of the attempt to deepen democracy by taking selfgovernment to the grassroots Mahendras monthly magazine buy.
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