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Second Backward Classes Commission (Mandal Commission) — 1979

Primary source: Department of Social Justice & Empowerment, Government of India

60-SECOND SUMMARY

What is this record?

The Government of India constituted the Second Backward Classes Commission in 1979 under Article 340, with B. P. Mandal as chair. Creating the commission was an institutional step distinct from its report, submitted in 1980, and from implementation in 1990.

  • Second Backward Classes Commission
  • Chaired by B. P. Mandal
  • Formation, report submission and implementation are separate events
Parliament House in New Delhi in 1926
Parliament House, New Delhi, in 1926. Institutional context; this image does not depict the later record event. National Archives of India via Wikimedia Commons · CC0 / public domain

RECORD PREVIEW

The source at a glance

Department of Social Justice & Empowerment, Government of IndiaReport of the Backward Classes Commission, 1980official commission-report archive · 1 January 1979

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THE DOCUMENT

What This Record Actually Says

  • The Second Backward Classes Commission was constituted in 1979 and chaired by B. P. Mandal.
  • Its mandate concerned criteria for socially and educationally backward classes and measures for their advancement.

CONTEXT

Why It Matters

  • The commission produced the evidence and recommendations later collected in the Mandal Commission Report.

READ WITH CARE

What It Does NOT Say

  • Constituting the commission did not implement its later recommendations.

SOURCE CONNECTIONS

Follow the Record

  1. earlier national commission precedes the second commission Kaka Kalelkar Commission
  2. commission produces its report Mandal Commission Report

Each connection is rendered from the archive’s typed canonical relationship data. A chronological connection does not by itself claim legal causation.

BEFORE

What Came Before

Kaka Kalelkar Commission

NEXT

What Happened Next

Mandal Commission Report

CONNECTED EVIDENCE

Connected Records

29 January 1953 — 30 March 1955Kaka Kalelkar CommissionRead the connected evidence record →31 December 1980Mandal Commission ReportRead the connected evidence record →

INQUIRY

Questions Worth Asking

  • What evidence and criteria did the commission use?

COMMON CONFUSIONS

Keep Separate

  • “Mandal Commission” can refer to the body; its 1980 report is a separate archival record.

EDITORIAL LAYER

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SOURCE & PROVENANCE

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Report of the Backward Classes Commission, 1980
Department of Social Justice & Empowerment, Government of India
official commission-report archive

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