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{{Infobox Indian constituency
| name = Indore City B
| type= SLA
| map_alt =
| mla = [[V.V. Dravid]]
| party = [[Indian National Congress]]
| alliance =
| latest_election_year = [[1952 Madhya Bharat Legislative Assembly election|1952]]
| state = [[Madhya Bharat]]
| loksabha_cons = [[Indore Lok Sabha constituency|Indore]]
| constituency_no =
| district = [[Indore District]]
| established = 1951
| electors =
| reservation =
| abolished = 1957
}}
'''Indore City B''' was a [[Vidhan Sabha|Legislative Assembly]] constituency in the [[States and union territories of India|Indian state]] of [[Madhya Bharat]], which elected one member of the in the [[1952 Madhya Bharat Legislative Assembly election|1952 election]] - the [[Indian National Congress]] leader and [[Trade union|trade unionist]] [[V.V. Dravid]] represented Indore City B in the Madhya Bharat Legislative Assembly.

==Location and electorate==
It was located in the southern parts of [[Indore]], and covered the ward 2, 4, 11, 12, 21 and 22 of the City Municipality as well as some villages of the Indore tehsil south of the city boundary.<ref name=rwjo/><ref>India. Parliament. ''[https://books.google.at/books?newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&id=eyEyiB37h3QC Election Manual: Containing Constitutional Provisions, Statutes, Rules and Regulations, Constituencies Delimitation Orders and Notes on Certain Aspects of Electoral Matters, and a Bibliography]''. 1951. p. 257</ref>

The constituency had 42,190 registered voters.<ref name=mb52eci/> The electorate of the constituency was largely rural.<ref name=rwjo>Rodney W. Jones. ''[https://books.google.at/books?id=Mxe6EAAAQBAJ Urban Politics in India: Area, Power, and Policy in a Penetrated System]''. Univ of California Press, 2023. pp. 108, 292, 295, 387</ref> Indore City B included the commercial hub of Chowni and the Sanyogitaganj market (which both had a large Hindu [[Bania (caste)|Baniya]] population).<ref name=rwjo/> The Residency area was also within the constituency boundary.<ref name=rwjo/> The constituency did not have a large working class presence, albeit there were pockets of lower castes and labourer populations in Gadi Adda and the Dalit colony in Juni Indore.<ref name=rwjo/> There were large populations of Maharashtrian Brahims in Juni Indore and Harsiddhi, and large Muslim populations in Ranipura and Malwi.<ref name=rwjo/>

The boundaries of the Legislative Assembly constituencies of Indore were redrawn ahead of the [[1957 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election]]. The southern parts of the city (Juni Indore, Chowni, Residency) were assigned to the new Indore City West constituency, whilst villages outside the city limits were assigned to the new Indore constituency (often referred to as the 'tehsil constituency').<ref name=rwjo/>

==1952 election==
Eight candidates contested the Indore City B seat in the [[1952 Madhya Bharat Legislative Assembly election]].<ref name=mb52eci>Election Commission of India. ''[http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1951/StatRep_51_MB.pdf STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1951 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF MADHYA BHARAT]''</ref> The constituency was considered as a safe seat for the Indian National Congress, which nominated the [[Indian National Trade Union Congress]] leader [[V.V. Dravid]].<ref name=rwjo/> Dravid won the election by a wide margin, with 13,596 votes (67.79%).<ref name=mb52eci/>

The two other main candidates were G.V. Oke of the [[Hindu Mahasabha]] and [[Homi F. Daji]] of the [[Communist Party of India]].<ref name=rwjo/> Oke, a Maharashtrian Braham, was a prominent local leader of his party.<ref name=rwjo/> Daji was a 26-year old Paris communist organiser, who was largely unknown to the wider public before the election.<ref name=rwjo/> The 1952 election was the first and only time that Daji contested on a CPI ticket.<ref name=rwjo/> Daji finished in second place with 2,185 votes (10.89%), and Oke in third place with 2,036 votes (10.15%).<ref name=mb52eci/> Daji obtained significant support from Muslim and Dalit areas (such as from Gadi Adda whilst Oke was mainly supported by voters from Maharashtrian Brahmin and Sindhi refugee communities.<ref name=rwjo/>

Other candidates in the fray were Arjun Gopikrishnan (independent, 857 votes, 4.27%), Ramnarain Vasudev Vyas ([[Socialist Party (India)|Socialist Party]], Hindi-speaking Brahman, 802 votes, 4%), Chandrawati Shankar Lal Kasarliwal (independent, 336 votes, 1.68%), Nirmalarani Motilal Potdar ([[Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party]], [[Sunar]], 123 votes, 0.61%) and Harish Chandra Pannalal (independent, 121 votes, 0.6%).<ref name=rwjo/><ref name=mb52eci/> Turn-out stood at 47.54%.<ref name=mb52eci/>

==References==
{{reflist}}
[[Category:Politics of Indore]]
[[Category:Assembly constituencies of Madhya Bharat]]
[[Category:Indore]]
[[Category:Legislative Assembly constituencies of Indian states established in 1951]]

Indore City B Assembly constituency - Revision history

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