ABSTRACT
Fazl-i-Husain intervened and set up rules which would apply to the entire province. The result was that in most places where the Muslims had been forced into a minority position by malpractices they became a majority on the basis of their majority population. The Hindu press and the community's leaders made a great fuss about this, but Fazli held fast to his policy, which was the government's policy, and noted that a full increase to the population ratio for Muslims would give them in excess of 50% of the posts. The Hindu population living on agriculture was also, like the Muslims, a victim of deprivation and this was the result of the craftiness and looting of a particular class of Hindu city trader. Notwithstanding the constitutional restrictions of that time, Mian Fazl-i-Husain became the de facto chief minister in the Punjab Council of 1924.
