SSC CGL 2025 Tier-I · 12 September 2025, Shift 3 · General Awareness · Question 17 of 100

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Which of the following is true regarding the Anglo-Indian representation in State Assemblies?

(a)The Governor still nominates one Anglo-Indian member to the Assembly.
(b)The provision was abolished by the 42nd Constitutional Amendment.
(c)The provision was abolished by the 104th Constitutional Amendment.
(d)Anglo-Indian members are elected through proportional representation.

Answer

Why

Correct — C. Article 333 let the Governor nominate one Anglo-Indian member to a State Assembly, and Article 334(b) put a time limit on it.

The 104th Amendment Act, 2019 (in force 25 January 2020) extended SC/ST seat reservation to eighty years from 1950 but left Anglo-Indian nomination at seventy years. The nomination therefore ended on 25 January 2020.

Why the others are wrong

(a)
The Governor still nominates one Anglo-Indian member to the Assembly. — "Still" is the error. Nomination under Article 333 ended when its seventy-year limit ran out on 25 January 2020. Members already nominated sat only until their Assembly was dissolved.
(b)
The provision was abolished by the 42nd Constitutional Amendment. — The 42nd Amendment did not touch this provision. Article 334's deadline was extended by other amendments, including the 45th, 62nd, 79th and 95th, before the 104th let the Anglo-Indian part lapse.
(d)
Anglo-Indian members are elected through proportional representation. — Anglo-Indians were nominated, not elected. Article 333 empowered the Governor to nominate one member of the community, so no proportional-representation election was involved.

Concept

The Constitution gave the Anglo-Indian community nominated seats, not elected ones: up to two in the Lok Sabha, nominated by the President (Article 331), and one in a State Assembly, nominated by the Governor (Article 333).

Article 334 made both these nominations and SC/ST seat reservation temporary, and Parliament repeatedly extended the deadline by amendment.

The 104th Amendment split the pair: SC/ST reservation now runs to 2030, while Anglo-Indian nomination was allowed to end in 2020.

The 104th Amendment did not delete Articles 331 and 333; they are still in the text. What ended the nominations is Article 334, which gave them no life beyond seventy years.

Key facts

Article 333 empowered the Governor to nominate one member of the Anglo-Indian community to the State Legislative Assembly.
Article 331 empowered the President to nominate not more than two Anglo-Indians to the Lok Sabha.
The Constitution (104th Amendment) Act, 2019 came into force on 25 January 2020 and extended SC/ST seat reservation to eighty years from the Constitution's commencement.
Article 334 left Anglo-Indian nomination at seventy years, so it ceased on 25 January 2020.

Study next

Reservation of seats for SCs and STs, Articles 330 and 332The 106th Amendment Act, 2023 on reservation of seats for womenNominated members of the Rajya Sabha under Article 80

Common traps

Picking the 42nd Amendment because it is the best-known amendment, though it never touched Anglo-Indian nomination.
Thinking the 104th Amendment deleted Articles 331 and 333 — it left them in place and let Article 334's time limit end them.

Constitutional amendments are also tested at 25 Sep 2024, 16:00, GA Q.4 (the 101st Amendment and the GST Council) and 17 Sep 2025, 16:00, GA Q.13 (the 42nd Amendment moving education to the Concurrent List).

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