HC Deb 23 April 1923 vol 163 c4
7. Colonel WEDGWOOD

asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether he can now give the number of prisoners for offences of a political character, similar in status to those recently released in the United Provinces, at present imprisoned in each of the other eight major provinces?

Earl WINTERTON

The numbers are:

Madras … 7
Bombay … 5
Bengal … 19
Punjab … 107
Bihar and Orissa … 19
Central Provinces … 3
Assam … 14
There is none in other Provinces.