In 1917 Mahatma Gandhi had said “Woman is the companion of man gifted with equal mental capacities. She has the right to participate in the minutes details of the activities of man, and she has the same right to freedom and liberty as he has”. Reservation for women was considered as early as in the 1930s, in the context of the constitutional reform of British India. The Government of India Act 1935 granted reserved seats in the elected Provincial Councils for women, as well as eleven other categories. But till now since then the option of special provisions to ensure women’s political representation was rejected many times. The National Council for women was formed in 1925 and Mehribai Tata wife of Dorab Tata played a key role. The All India Women’s Conference was founded in 1927, originally organised only to discuss women’s education but became a permanent body. Muthulakshmi Reddy became the first woman legislator who was appointed to the Madras Legislative council in 1927. Moreover, The Government of India Act, 1935 enfranchised one woman for every five men who were encumbered by qualifications like literacy, property ownership or marriage to propertied men. This act granted reserved seats for women and after the result of 1937 election there were 80 women legislators.