Notes The Crucial Years 1927-1934

Abstract

With the announcement of the Simon Commission’s visit to India in 1927 hectic political activities were afoot in India for the consensual report of the Indian parties on the desired constitutional advance. The major parties of India formed a committee under the chairmanship of Pandit Motilal Nehru in All Political Parties Conference at Calcutta in 1928 to prepare a report. As the Muslim members boycotted the Nehru Committee it could not become a consensual report. The members of the committee were Sir Taj Bahadur Sapro, G.R. Pradhan, Sir Ali Imam Shoaib Qureshi, Sardar Mangal Singh to Subhash Chandra Bose. The committee was not representative of the hard core of Indian Muslims. Its two Muslim members only signed it after abstaining from its proceedings. Even the AICC also rejected it when it presented and passed the complete independence resolution in its annual session at Lahore in 1929. The happenings of Congress’s rejection of Nehru Report in 1929 are quite interesting and revealing and hence the need to go through the consequences.