ABSTRACT
The new Government of India Act of 1935 was based on the Communal Award and elections to the provincial legislatures were held in 1937 on the basis of it. The overwhelming victory of the Congress in six provinces made them too confident about their popularity. They now started on a series of tactical mistakes. Huq was offered the premiership for his personal popularity as it was well known that ‘no Moslem party in Bengal could under present conditions hold together without him’. Huq was now pressed into action for implementing the political programme of the Muslim League with the zeal of a new recruit. The implementation of the communal ratio in the services created a fresh set of grievances. The schism in the Muslim camp was not undesirable to the British Government at the initial stage when it was worried about Muslim reactions to British occupation of Iran.
