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Who among the following was the representative of Anglo-Indian community in Constituent Assembly :
1. Richard Gilbert
2. Mountbatten
3. Frank Anthony
1 and 2
2 and 3
1 only
3 only
Owing to the special status that India accorded to the Anglo-Indian community, a seat was reserved for their representative in Constituent Assembly. Going a step further, the Assembly even included a provision in the Constitution under which the President of India can nominate two members from the community to the Lok Sabha.
Frank Anthony was a well-known lawyer and later, an educationist who was founder of the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations which operates the ICSE board of Education and also of the All India Anglo-Indian Educational Trust, which runs several schools named after him. He was also president-in-chief of the Anglo-Indian Association from 1942 until his death in 1993, and a member of the Constituent Assembly of India, representing the Anglo-Indian community.
In the Assembly, he was a part of Advisory Committee and Sub Committee on Minorities. And he had the ear of senior leaders like Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and Vallabhbhai Patel. Mr. Anthony, by some accounts, convinced them that since the Anglo Indians did not have their own state, and were too small ane geographically spread out a minority to get elected — and therefore represent community interests in Parliament or state assemblies — they needed reserved seats.
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