Sandur State Council, also known as Praja Mandal, was the name of the lower house of the

bicameral Bicameralism is a type of legislature that is divided into two separate Deliberative assembly, assemblies, chambers, or houses, known as a bicameral legislature. Bicameralism is distinguished from unicameralism, in which all members deliberate ...

legislative council of

Sandur State Sandur State was a princely state of India during the British Raj, part of the Madras States Agency. The ruling dynasty of the state was the Ghorpade clan of the Marathas. Its capital was the town of Sanduru. The last ruler, Raja Yeshwantr ...

. It was representative in nature and was inaugurated on 20 April 1931 by the Raja of Sandur,

Yeshwantrao Ghorpade Maharaja Srimant Yeshwantrao Hindurao Ghorpade (13 November 1908 - 11 October 1996) was the ruler of the princely state of Sandur from 1928 to 1949. He was the last Rajah of Sandur and presided over the accession of the state to the Dominion of ...

through the Sandur State Council (Prajamandal) Act of 1931 with a total of 25 members, 21 of whom were elected and the rest, nominated. The upper house was called Durbar and consisted of the landed aristocracy.

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