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Round Table Conferences (India)

The three Round Table Conferences of 1930–1932 were a series of peace conferences organized by the British Government and Indian political personalities to discuss constitutional reforms in India.[1] These started in November 1930 and ended in December 1932. They were conducted as per the recommendation of Muhammad Ali Jinnah to Viceroy Lord Irwin and Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald,[2][3] and by the report submitted by the Simon Commission in May 1930. Demands for Swaraj or self-rule in India had been growing increasingly strong. B. R. Ambedkar, Jinnah, Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru, V. S. Srinivasa Sastri, Sir Muhammad Zafrulla Khan, K. T. Paul and Mirabehn were key participants from India. By the 1930s, many British politicians believed that India needed to move towards dominion status. However, there were significant disagreements between the Indian and the British political parties that the Conferences would not resolve. The key topic was about constitution and India which was mainly discussed in that conference. There were three Round Table Conferences from 1930 to 1932.

First Round Table Conference (November 1930 – January 1931)

The Round Table Conference officially inaugurated by His Majesty George V on November 12, 1930 in Royal Gallery House of Lords at London[2] and chaired by the Prime Minister. Ramsay MacDonald was also chairman of a subcommittee on minority representation, while for the duration his son, Malcolm MacDonald, performed liaison tasks with Lord Sankey's constitutional committee.[4] One of the foremost advisers was Sir Malcolm Hailey, an Indian civil servant with thirty years experience. The leading Liberal on the committee, Lord Reading was "well aware of the troubles which might arise if and when India became independent."[5] Clement Attlee, who served on the Simon Commission, wanted an early resolution but was baulked by the Conservatives in government until 1945. Sir Samuel Hoare wrote the cabinet a memo recommending a federal formula for the Government of India to "make it possible to give a semblance of responsible government and yet retain the realities and verities of British control."[6] The idea was proposed by the princely states and other Liberal Indian leaders including Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru would welcome it. The minority Labour government hoped to win the support of Liberal and Conservative colleagues in parliament for a "responsive" Indian government at central and provincial levels and a conservative legislature.

The eight British political parties were represented by sixteen delegates. There were fifty-eight political leaders from British India and sixteen delegates from the princely states. In total 74 delegates from India attended the Conference. However, the Indian National Congress, along with Indian business leaders, kept away from the conference. Many of them were in jail for their participation in Civil Disobedience Movement.[7] Lord Irwin made a controversial statement declaring that India should be eventually granted Dominionship. After a discussion in Delhi in December 1929, Gandhi had refused to attend the London meetings. In accordance with the law the Viceroy arrested Gandhi sending him to prison. However the Mahatma's presence would prove vital for the conference success. The culmination of events were settled by the Gandhi–Irwin Pact (1931). A chastised Gandhi wanted the peaceful end to civil disobedience demanded by the Viceroy and his Council. Lord Irwin was triumphant but the Simon Commission had failed to gauge the determination of Indian opinion to ultimately bring independence.[8] The Conservatives were disgusted: "the whole conference was manipulated and manoeuvred by the Socialist Party, said Sir Winston Churchill, "to achieve the result they had set before themselves from the beginning, namely the conferring of responsible government at the centre upon Indians."[9]

Participants

Proceedings

The conference started with six plenary meetings where delegates put forward their issues nine sub-committees were formed to deal with several different matters including federal structure, provincial constitution, province of Sindh and NWFP, defense services and minorities e.t.c.[10] These were followed by discussions on the reports of the sub-committees on Federal Structure, Provincial Constitution, Minorities, Burma, North West Frontier Province, Franchise, Defense services and Sindh. These were followed by 2 more plenary meetings and a final concluding session.[7] It was difficult for progress to be made in the absence of the Indian National Congress but some advances were made. The Prime Minister wrote his diary "India has not considered. It was communalism and proportions of reserved seats" that exposed the worst side of Indian politics.[11]

The idea of an All-India Federation was moved to the centre of discussion by Tej Bahadur Sapru.[12] All the groups attending the conference supported this concept. The princely states agreed to the proposed federation provided that their internal sovereignty was guaranteed. The Muslim League also supported the federation as it had always been opposed to a strong Centre. The British agreed that representative government should be introduced on provincial level.

The Congress, which had boycotted the first conference, was requested to come to a settlement by Sapru, M. R. Jayakar and V. S. Srinivasa Sastri. A settlement between Mahatma Gandhi and Viceroy Lord Irwin brought the Congress to the second session of Round Table Conference, which opened on 7 September. Although MacDonald was still Prime Minister of Britain, he was by this time heading a coalition Government (the "National Government") with a Conservative majority, including Sir Samuel Hoare as a new Secretary of State for India. On 7 November 1931 Gandhi secretly met with Malcolm MacDonald in his rooms at Balliol College, Oxford. He took the opportunity to gain publicity from a tour of the East End and visit to Lancashire cotton mills, but could not persuade the government to grant self-rule: of more urgency was the gathering Agrarian Crisis and Congress newest campaign for a Fair rent.

The discussion led to the passing of the Government of India Act 1935, yet the Governor of United Provinces was happy to be rid of Gandhi's campaigns "playing havoc with six or seven million tenants in the UP."[13] When Nehru decried that the famine relief programme was pitiful, he was already asking for a kisan rent strike, and Patel called for a satyagraha. When quizzed in London about his intentions for the conference, Gandhi averred he could do nothing about agrarian problems from England. Little was achieved other than the Government realised they had to tackle absentee landlordism in India to avert disaster.

Second Round Table Conference (September 1931 – December 1931)

Participants

Proceedings

The Second Session opened on September 7, 1931. There were three major differences between the first and second Round Table Conferences. By the second:

 
The Second Round Table Conference (September 7, 1931)
  • Congress Representation — The Gandhi–Irwin Pact opened the way for Congress participation in this conference. Gandhi was invited from India and attended as the sole official Congress representative accompanied by Sarojini Naidu and also Madan Mohan Malaviya, Ghanshyam Das Birla, Muhammad Iqbal, Sir Mirza Ismail (Diwan of Mysore), S.K. Dutta and Sir Syed Ali Imam. Gandhi claimed that the Congress alone represented political India; that the Untouchables were Hindus and should not be treated as a “minority”; and that there should be no separate electorates or special safeguards for Muslims or other minorities. These claims were rejected by the other Indian participants. According to this pact, Gandhi was asked to call off the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM) and if he did so the prisoners of the British government would be freed except the criminal prisoners, i.e. those who had killed British officials. He returned to India, disappointed with the results and empty-handed.
  • National Government — two weeks earlier the Labour government in London had fallen. Ramsay MacDonald now headed a National Government dominated by the Conservative Party.
  • Financial Crisis – During the conference, Britain went off the Gold Standard, further distracting the National Government.

At the end of the conference Ramsay MacDonald undertook to produce a Communal Award for minority representation, with the provision that any free agreement between the parties could be substituted for his award.

Gandhi took particular exception to the treatment of untouchables as a minority separate from the rest of the Hindu community. Other important discussions were the responsibility of the executive to the legislature and a separate electorate for the Untouchables as demanded by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar.[14] Gandhi announced that henceforth he would work only on behalf of the Harijans: he reached a compromise with the leader of depressed classes, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, over this issue; the two eventually resolved the situation with the Poona Pact of 1932.[15] But not before the conference of All-India Depressed Classes had specifically 'denounced the claim made by Gandhi.'[16]

Third Round Table Conference (November – December 1932)

The third and last session assembled on November 17, 1932. Only forty-six delegates attended since most of the main political figures of India were not present. The Labour Party from Britain and the Indian National Congress refused to attend.

From September 1931 until March 1933, under the supervision of the Secretary of State for India, Sir Samuel Hoare, the proposed reforms took the form reflected in the Government of India Act 1935.

Participants

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i Attended all three conferences

References

  1. ^ Legg, Stephen (2020). "Imperial Internationalism: The Round Table Conference and the Making of India in London, 1930–1932". Humanity. 11 (1): 32–53. doi:10.1353/hum.2020.0006. ISSN 2151-4372.
  2. ^ a b Wolpert, Stanley (2013). Jinnah of Pakistan (15 ed.). Karachi, Pakistan: University Press. p. 107. ISBN 978-0-19-577389-7.
  3. ^ Wolpert, Stanley (2012). Shameful Flight (1st ed.). Karachi, Pakistan: Oxford University Press. p. 5. ISBN 978-0-19-906606-3.
  4. ^ Ramsay Macdonald, The Awakening of India (1909) advocated progress towards Indian self-government.
  5. ^ MacDonald Papers file 112/1/67, C Sanger, Malcolm MacDonald: End of Empire (1995), p.79.
  6. ^ 12 December 1930, Carl Bridge, Holding India to the Empire: the British Conservative Party and the 1935 Constitution (new Delhi: Sterling, 1988). Hoare was in direct correspondence with Viceroy Lord Irwin and Sir Malcolm Hailey, Governor of United Provinces, where Gandhi lived.
  7. ^ a b Indian Round Table Conference Proceedings. Government of India. 1931.
  8. ^ Christopher Lee (2018), Viceroys: the creation of the British(London: Constable)
  9. ^ Speech March 1931, Constitutional Club, W S Churchill
  10. ^ a b Prof M. Ikram, Rabbani. Pakistan studies (2nd ed.). Lahore, Pakistan: Caravan Book house. pp. 100–101.
  11. ^ 15 December 1930, Macdonald Diary; David Marquand, Ramsay MacDonald (London: Jonathan Cape, 1977)
  12. ^ Menon, V.P. (1957). Transfer of Power in India. Orient Longman Ltd. p. 44. ISBN 9788125008842. Retrieved 2015-05-29.
  13. ^ Robert D Pearce, The Turning Point in Africa: British Colonial Policy 1938-1948 (London: Cass, 1982), p.43.
  14. ^ "mr Gandhi demanded that as one of the conditions for his accepting their fourteen points, they should oppose the claims of the Depressed Classes, and the smaller minorities." Dr. Ambedkar letter to The Times of India, 12 October 1931.
  15. ^ Collected Writings of Mahatma Gandhi, 51.; Robin J. Moore, The Crisis of Indian Unity 1917–1940, p.289.
  16. ^ C.Keer, Dr Ambedkar: Life and Mission, (1971) p.178–9.

Further reading

  • Beatty, Michael J.; Behnke, Ralph R.; Banks, Barbara Jane (1979). Elements of dialogic communication in Gandhi's second round table conference address. pp. 386–398.
  • Menon, V. P. (1995). Integration of the Indian States. Orient Longman Ltd.
  • Ball, Stuart, ed. (2014). Conservative Politics in National and Imperial Crisis, Letters from Britain to the Viceroy of Indian 1926-1931. Ashgate publishing.
  • Mount, Ferdinand (2015). The Tears of the Rajas. London: Simon & Schuster.
  • Nehru, Jawaharlal (1936). Autobiography (2nd, Delhi: OUP, 1980 ed.). London: Bodley Head.
  • Wood, Edward (1932). Indian Problems. London: Allen & Unwin.

External links

  • Golmej Sammelan in Hindi - गोलमेज सम्मलेन (1931-1932)
  • 70th Anniversary of Indian Independence - 1931 Indian Round Table Conference- UK Parliament Living Heritage
  • Essay on Indian Constitutional Round Table Conferences, London 1931–1933[dubious ]
  • Buy Conference Tables Oregon

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This article is about Anglo Indian round table conferences For Dutch Indonesian round table conference see Dutch Indonesian Round Table Conference For other uses see Round Table disambiguation The three Round Table Conferences of 1930 1932 were a series of peace conferences organized by the British Government and Indian political personalities to discuss constitutional reforms in India 1 These started in November 1930 and ended in December 1932 They were conducted as per the recommendation of Muhammad Ali Jinnah to Viceroy Lord Irwin and Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald 2 3 and by the report submitted by the Simon Commission in May 1930 Demands for Swaraj or self rule in India had been growing increasingly strong B R Ambedkar Jinnah Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru V S Srinivasa Sastri Sir Muhammad Zafrulla Khan K T Paul and Mirabehn were key participants from India By the 1930s many British politicians believed that India needed to move towards dominion status However there were significant disagreements between the Indian and the British political parties that the Conferences would not resolve The key topic was about constitution and India which was mainly discussed in that conference There were three Round Table Conferences from 1930 to 1932 Contents 1 First Round Table Conference November 1930 January 1931 1 1 Participants 1 2 Proceedings 2 Second Round Table Conference September 1931 December 1931 2 1 Participants 2 2 Proceedings 3 Third Round Table Conference November December 1932 3 1 Participants 4 Notes 5 References 6 Further reading 7 External linksFirst Round Table Conference November 1930 January 1931 EditThe Round Table Conference officially inaugurated by His Majesty George V on November 12 1930 in Royal Gallery House of Lords at London 2 and chaired by the Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald was also chairman of a subcommittee on minority representation while for the duration his son Malcolm MacDonald performed liaison tasks with Lord Sankey s constitutional committee 4 One of the foremost advisers was Sir Malcolm Hailey an Indian civil servant with thirty years experience The leading Liberal on the committee Lord Reading was well aware of the troubles which might arise if and when India became independent 5 Clement Attlee who served on the Simon Commission wanted an early resolution but was baulked by the Conservatives in government until 1945 Sir Samuel Hoare wrote the cabinet a memo recommending a federal formula for the Government of India to make it possible to give a semblance of responsible government and yet retain the realities and verities of British control 6 The idea was proposed by the princely states and other Liberal Indian leaders including Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru would welcome it The minority Labour government hoped to win the support of Liberal and Conservative colleagues in parliament for a responsive Indian government at central and provincial levels and a conservative legislature The eight British political parties were represented by sixteen delegates There were fifty eight political leaders from British India and sixteen delegates from the princely states In total 74 delegates from India attended the Conference However the Indian National Congress along with Indian business leaders kept away from the conference Many of them were in jail for their participation in Civil Disobedience Movement 7 Lord Irwin made a controversial statement declaring that India should be eventually granted Dominionship After a discussion in Delhi in December 1929 Gandhi had refused to attend the London meetings In accordance with the law the Viceroy arrested Gandhi sending him to prison However the Mahatma s presence would prove vital for the conference success The culmination of events were settled by the Gandhi Irwin Pact 1931 A chastised Gandhi wanted the peaceful end to civil disobedience demanded by the Viceroy and his Council Lord Irwin was triumphant but the Simon Commission had failed to gauge the determination of Indian opinion to ultimately bring independence 8 The Conservatives were disgusted the whole conference was manipulated and manoeuvred by the Socialist Party said Sir Winston Churchill to achieve the result they had set before themselves from the beginning namely the conferring of responsible government at the centre upon Indians 9 Participants Edit British Representatives Labour Ramsay MacDonald Lord Sankey Wedgwood Benn Arthur Henderson J H Thomas William Jowitt Hastings Lees Smith Earl Russell Conservative Earl Peel Marquess of Zetland Samuel Hoare Oliver Stanley Liberal Marquess of Reading Marquess of Lothian Sir Robert Hamilton Isaac Foot Muslim League Aga Khan III a leader of British Indian delegation Muhammad Ali Jinnah Maulana Mohammad Ali Jauhar Muhammad Shafi Muhammad Zafarullah Khan Sir Abdul Halim Ghuznavi Sir Ghulam Hussain Hidayatullah AK Fazlul Huq Dr Shafa at Ahmad Khan Raja Sher Muhammad Khan of Domeli 10 Indian States Representatives Maharaja of Alwar Maharaja of Baroda Maharaja of Darbhanga Nawab of Bhopal Maharaja of Bikaner Rana of Dholpur Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir Maharaja of Nawanagar Maharaja of Patiala Chancellor of the Chamber of Princes Maharaja of Rewa Chief Sahib of Sangli Sir Prabhashankar Pattani Bhavnagar Manubhai Mehta Baroda Sardar Sahibzada Sultan Ahmed Khan Gwalior Akbar Hydari Hyderabad Mirza Ismail Mysore Kailash Narain Haksar Jammu and Kashmir British Indian Representatives Hindus B S Moonje M R Jayakar Diwan Bahadur Raja Narendra Nath Liberals J N Basu Tej Bahadur Sapru a C Y Chintamani V S Srinivasa Sastri Chimanlal Harilal Setalvad Justice Party Arcot Ramasamy Mudaliar Bhaskarrao Vithojirao Jadhav Sir A P Patro Depressed Classes B R Ambedkar a Rettamalai Srinivasan Sikhs Sardar Ujjal Singh Sardar Sampuran Singh Parsis Phiroze Sethna Cowasji Jehangir Homi Mody Indian Christians K T Paul All India Conference of Indian Christians Europeans Sir Hubert Carr Sir Oscar de Glanville Burma T F Gavin Jones C E Wood Madras Anglo Indians Henry Gidney Women Begum Jahanara Shahnawaz Radhabai Subbarayan Landlords Maharaja Kameshwar Singh of Darbhanga Bihar Muhammad Ahmad Said Khan Chhatari United Provinces Raja of Parlakimedi Orissa Provash Chandra Mitter Labour N M Joshi B Shiva Rao Universities Syed Sultan Ahmed Bisheshwar Dayal Seth Burma U Aung Thin Ba U M M Ohn Ghine Sindh Shah Nawaz Bhutto Ghulam Hussain Hidayatullah Other Provinces Chandradhar Barua Assam Sahibzada Abdul Qayyum NWFP S B Tambe Central Provinces Government of India Narendra Nath Law Bhupendra Nath Mitra C P Ramaswami Iyer M Ramachandra Rao Officials attending in consultative capacity W M Hailey C A Innes A C MacWatters Sir Henry G Haig L W Reynolds Indian States Delegation Staff Hyderabad Sir Richard Chenevix Trench Nawab Mahdi Yar Jung Ahmed Hussain Nawab Sir Amin Jung Bahadur Reginald Glancy South Indian States T Raghavaiah Baroda V T Krishnamachari Alwar Fateh Naseeb Khan Orissa States K C Neogy Nominated by the Chamber of Princes Special Organisation L F Rushbrook Williams Qazi Ali Haidar Abbasi Jarmani Dass Anna Babaji Latthe D A Surve Secretariats S K Brown V Dawson K S Fitze W H Lewis R J Stopford John Coatman Marmaduke Pickthall K M Panikkar N S Subba Rao Geoffrey Corbett A Latifi Girija Shankar Bajpai Secretariat General R H A Carter Mian Abdul Aziz W D Croft G E J Gent B G Holdsworth R F Mudie G S RajadhyakshaProceedings Edit The conference started with six plenary meetings where delegates put forward their issues nine sub committees were formed to deal with several different matters including federal structure provincial constitution province of Sindh and NWFP defense services and minorities e t c 10 These were followed by discussions on the reports of the sub committees on Federal Structure Provincial Constitution Minorities Burma North West Frontier Province Franchise Defense services and Sindh These were followed by 2 more plenary meetings and a final concluding session 7 It was difficult for progress to be made in the absence of the Indian National Congress but some advances were made The Prime Minister wrote his diary India has not considered It was communalism and proportions of reserved seats that exposed the worst side of Indian politics 11 The idea of an All India Federation was moved to the centre of discussion by Tej Bahadur Sapru 12 All the groups attending the conference supported this concept The princely states agreed to the proposed federation provided that their internal sovereignty was guaranteed The Muslim League also supported the federation as it had always been opposed to a strong Centre The British agreed that representative government should be introduced on provincial level The Congress which had boycotted the first conference was requested to come to a settlement by Sapru M R Jayakar and V S Srinivasa Sastri A settlement between Mahatma Gandhi and Viceroy Lord Irwin brought the Congress to the second session of Round Table Conference which opened on 7 September Although MacDonald was still Prime Minister of Britain he was by this time heading a coalition Government the National Government with a Conservative majority including Sir Samuel Hoare as a new Secretary of State for India On 7 November 1931 Gandhi secretly met with Malcolm MacDonald in his rooms at Balliol College Oxford He took the opportunity to gain publicity from a tour of the East End and visit to Lancashire cotton mills but could not persuade the government to grant self rule of more urgency was the gathering Agrarian Crisis and Congress newest campaign for a Fair rent The discussion led to the passing of the Government of India Act 1935 yet the Governor of United Provinces was happy to be rid of Gandhi s campaigns playing havoc with six or seven million tenants in the UP 13 When Nehru decried that the famine relief programme was pitiful he was already asking for a kisan rent strike and Patel called for a satyagraha When quizzed in London about his intentions for the conference Gandhi averred he could do nothing about agrarian problems from England Little was achieved other than the Government realised they had to tackle absentee landlordism in India to avert disaster Second Round Table Conference September 1931 December 1931 EditParticipants Edit British Representatives Labour Ramsay MacDonald Wedgwood Benn Arthur Henderson William Jowitt Hastings Lees Smith F W Pethick Lawrence Lord Sankey Lord Snell J H Thomas Conservative Viscount Hailsham Samuel Hoare Earl Peel Oliver Stanley Marquess of Zetland Scottish Unionist Walter Elliot Liberal Isaac Foot Henry Graham White Robert Hamilton Marquess of Lothian Marquess of Reading Indian States Representatives Maharaja of Alwar Maharaja of Baroda Maharaja Of Darbhanga Nawab of Bhopal Maharaja of Bikaner Maharao of Kutch Rana of Dholpur Maharaja of Indore Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir Maharaja of Kapurthala Maharaja of Nawanagar Maharaja of Patiala Maharaja of Rewa Chief Sahib of Sangli Raja of Korea Raja of Sarila Sir Prabhashankar Pattani Bhavnagar Manubhai Mehta Baroda Sardar Sahibzada Sultan Ahmed Khan Gwalior Sir Muhammad Akbar Hydari Hyderabad Mirza Ismail Mysore Col K N Haksar Jammu and Kashmir T Raghavaiah Travancore Liaqat Hayat Khan Patiala British Indian Representatives Government of India C P Ramaswami Iyer Narendra Nath Law M Ramachandra Rao Indian National Congress Mahatma Gandhi He was the sole representative of the Congress Muslims Aga Khan III a Maulana Shaukat Ali Muhammad Ali Jinnah A K Fazlul Huq Sir Muhammad Iqbal Muhammad Shafi Muhammad Zafarullah Khan Sir Syed Ali Imam Maulvi Muhammad Shafi Daudi Raja Sher Muhammad Khan of Domeli A H Ghuznavi Hafiz Hidayat Hussain Sayed Muhammad Padshah Saheb Bahadur Dr Shafa at Ahmad Khan Jamal Muhammad Rowther Khwaja Mian Rowther Nawab Sahibzada Sayed Muhammad Mehr Shah Hindus M R Jayakar B S Moonje Diwan Bahadur Raja Narendra Nath Liberals J N Basu C Y Chintamani Tej Bahadur Sapru a V S Srinivasa Sastri Chimanlal Harilal Setalvad Justice Party Raja of Bobbili Arcot Ramasamy Mudaliar Sir A P Patro Bhaskarrao Vithojirao Jadhav Depressed Classes B R Ambedkar a Rettamalai Srinivasan Sikhs Sardar Ujjal Singh Sardar Sampuran Singh Parsis Cowasji Jehangir Homi Mody Phiroze Sethna Indian Christians Surendra Kumar Datta A T Pannirselvam Europeans E C Benthall Sir Hubert Carr T F Gavin Jones C E Wood Madras Anglo Indians Henry Gidney Women Sarojini Naidu Begum Jahanara Shahnawaz Radhabai Subbarayan Landlords Muhammad Ahmad Said Khan Chhatari United Provinces Kameshwar Singh of Darbhanga Bihar Raja of Parlakimedi Orissa Sir Provash Chandra Mitter Industry Ghanshyam Das Birla Sir Purshottamdas Thakurdas Maneckji Dadabhoy Labour N M Joshi B Shiva Rao V V Giri Universities Syed Sultan Ahmed Bisheshwar Dayal Seth Burma Sir Padamji Ginwala Sindh Shah Nawaz Bhutto Ghulam Hussain Hidayatullah Other Provinces Chandradhar Barua Assam Sahibzada Abdul Qayyum NWFP S B Tambe Central Provinces Indian States Delegation Staff V T Krishnamachari Baroda Richard Chenevix Trench Hyderabad Nawab Mahdi Yar Jung Hyderabad S M Bapna Indore Amar Nath Atal Jaipur J W Young Jodhpur Ram Chandra Kak Jammu and Kashmir Sahibzada Abdus Samad Khan Rampur K C Neogy Orissa states L F Rushbrook Williams Jarmani Dass Muhammad Saleh Akbar Hydari K M Panikkar N Madhava Rao British Delegation Staff H G Haig V Dawson K S Fitze J G Laithwaite W H Lewis P J Patrick John Coatman G T Garratt R J Stopford British Indian Delegation Staff Geoffrey Corbett A Latifi Girija Shankar Bajpai Benegal Rama Rau Syed Amjad Ali Prince Aly Khan A M Chaudhury Mahadev Desai Govind Malaviya K T Shah P Sinha Secretariat General R H A Carter K Anderson C D Deshmukh J M Sladen Hugh MacGregor G F Steward A H Joyce Syed Amjad Ali Ram Babu SaksenaProceedings Edit The Second Session opened on September 7 1931 There were three major differences between the first and second Round Table Conferences By the second The Second Round Table Conference September 7 1931 Congress Representation The Gandhi Irwin Pact opened the way for Congress participation in this conference Gandhi was invited from India and attended as the sole official Congress representative accompanied by Sarojini Naidu and also Madan Mohan Malaviya Ghanshyam Das Birla Muhammad Iqbal Sir Mirza Ismail Diwan of Mysore S K Dutta and Sir Syed Ali Imam Gandhi claimed that the Congress alone represented political India that the Untouchables were Hindus and should not be treated as a minority and that there should be no separate electorates or special safeguards for Muslims or other minorities These claims were rejected by the other Indian participants According to this pact Gandhi was asked to call off the Civil Disobedience Movement CDM and if he did so the prisoners of the British government would be freed except the criminal prisoners i e those who had killed British officials He returned to India disappointed with the results and empty handed National Government two weeks earlier the Labour government in London had fallen Ramsay MacDonald now headed a National Government dominated by the Conservative Party Financial Crisis During the conference Britain went off the Gold Standard further distracting the National Government At the end of the conference Ramsay MacDonald undertook to produce a Communal Award for minority representation with the provision that any free agreement between the parties could be substituted for his award Gandhi took particular exception to the treatment of untouchables as a minority separate from the rest of the Hindu community Other important discussions were the responsibility of the executive to the legislature and a separate electorate for the Untouchables as demanded by Dr B R Ambedkar 14 Gandhi announced that henceforth he would work only on behalf of the Harijans he reached a compromise with the leader of depressed classes Dr B R Ambedkar over this issue the two eventually resolved the situation with the Poona Pact of 1932 15 But not before the conference of All India Depressed Classes had specifically denounced the claim made by Gandhi 16 Third Round Table Conference November December 1932 EditThe third and last session assembled on November 17 1932 Only forty six delegates attended since most of the main political figures of India were not present The Labour Party from Britain and the Indian National Congress refused to attend From September 1931 until March 1933 under the supervision of the Secretary of State for India Sir Samuel Hoare the proposed reforms took the form reflected in the Government of India Act 1935 Participants Edit Indian States Representatives Dewan Kishen Pershad Dewan of Hyderabad Mirza Ismail Dewan of Mysore V T Krishnamachari Dewan of Baroda Wajahat Hussain Jammu and Kashmir Sir Sukhdeo Prasad Udaipur Jaipur Jodhpur D A Surve Kolhapur Raja Oudh Narain Bisarya Bhopal Manubhai Mehta Bikaner Nawab Liaqat Hayat Khan Patiala Fateh Naseeb Khan Alwar State L F Rushbrook Williams Nawanagar Raja of Sarila small states British Indian Representatives Aga Khan III a Sir Dr Allama Muhammad Iqbal B R Ambedkar a Depressed Classes separate Electorate Ramakrishna Ranga Rao of Bobbili Sir Hubert Carr Europeans Nanak Chand Pandit A H Ghuznavi Henry Gidney Anglo Indians Hafiz Hidayat Hussain M R Jayakar Cowasji Jehangir N M Joshi Labour Narasimha Chintaman Kelkar Arcot Ramasamy Mudaliar Begum Jahanara Shahnawaz Women A P Patro Tej Bahadur Sapru a Dr Shafa at Ahmad Khan Sir Shadi Lal Tara Singh Malhotra Sir Nripendra Nath Sircar Sir Purshottamdas Thakurdas Muhammad Zafarullah Khan Notes Edit a b c d e f g h i Attended all three conferencesReferences Edit Legg Stephen 2020 Imperial Internationalism The Round Table Conference and the Making of India in London 1930 1932 Humanity 11 1 32 53 doi 10 1353 hum 2020 0006 ISSN 2151 4372 a b Wolpert Stanley 2013 Jinnah of Pakistan 15 ed Karachi Pakistan University Press p 107 ISBN 978 0 19 577389 7 Wolpert Stanley 2012 Shameful Flight 1st ed Karachi Pakistan Oxford University Press p 5 ISBN 978 0 19 906606 3 Ramsay Macdonald The Awakening of India 1909 advocated progress towards Indian self government MacDonald Papers file 112 1 67 C Sanger Malcolm MacDonald End of Empire 1995 p 79 12 December 1930 Carl Bridge Holding India to the Empire the British Conservative Party and the 1935 Constitution new Delhi Sterling 1988 Hoare was in direct correspondence with Viceroy Lord Irwin and Sir Malcolm Hailey Governor of United Provinces where Gandhi lived a b Indian Round Table Conference Proceedings Government of India 1931 Christopher Lee 2018 Viceroys the creation of the British London Constable Speech March 1931 Constitutional Club W S Churchill a b Prof M Ikram Rabbani Pakistan studies 2nd ed Lahore Pakistan Caravan Book house pp 100 101 15 December 1930 Macdonald Diary David Marquand Ramsay MacDonald London Jonathan Cape 1977 Menon V P 1957 Transfer of Power in India Orient Longman Ltd p 44 ISBN 9788125008842 Retrieved 2015 05 29 Robert D Pearce The Turning Point in Africa British Colonial Policy 1938 1948 London Cass 1982 p 43 mr Gandhi demanded that as one of the conditions for his accepting their fourteen points they should oppose the claims of the Depressed Classes and the smaller minorities Dr Ambedkar letter to The Times of India 12 October 1931 Collected Writings of Mahatma Gandhi 51 Robin J Moore The Crisis of Indian Unity 1917 1940 p 289 C Keer Dr Ambedkar Life and Mission 1971 p 178 9 Further reading EditBeatty Michael J Behnke Ralph R Banks Barbara Jane 1979 Elements of dialogic communication in Gandhi s second round table conference address pp 386 398 Menon V P 1995 Integration of the Indian States Orient Longman Ltd Ball Stuart ed 2014 Conservative Politics in National and Imperial Crisis Letters from Britain to the Viceroy of Indian 1926 1931 Ashgate publishing Mount Ferdinand 2015 The Tears of the Rajas London Simon amp Schuster Nehru Jawaharlal 1936 Autobiography 2nd Delhi OUP 1980 ed London Bodley Head Wood Edward 1932 Indian Problems London Allen amp Unwin External links EditGolmej Sammelan in Hindi ग लम ज सम मल न 1931 1932 70th Anniversary of Indian Independence 1931 Indian Round Table Conference UK Parliament Living Heritage Essay on Indian Constitutional Round Table Conferences London 1931 1933 dubious discuss Buy Conference Tables Oregon Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Round Table Conferences India amp oldid 1154137790, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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