Question
Download Solution PDFIn 1928, who wrote the Congress Party's Nehru Report, a future constitution for independent India based on the grating of dominion status?
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Download Solution PDFThe correct answer is Motilal Nehru.
Key Points
- Nehru Report (1928)
- Nehru Report 1928 was a report by a committee headed by Pt. Motilal Nehru.
- This committee was created when Lord Birkenhead, Secretary of State of India, asked the Indian leaders to draft a constitution for the country.
- The report which demanded a Dominion Status for India was considered by Congress.
Additional Information
- The following were the recommendations advanced by the Nehru Report:
- India should be given the status of dominion.
- There should be a federal form of government with residuary powers vested in the center.
- India should have a parliamentary form of government headed by a Prime Minister and six ministers appointed by the Governor-General.
- There should be a bi-cameral legislature.
- There should be no separate electorate for any community.
- The system of weightage for minorities was as bad as that of separate electorates.
- Reservation of Muslim seats could be possible in the provinces where the Muslim population was at least ten percent, but this was to be in strict proportion to the size of the community.
- Muslims should enjoy one-fourth of representation in the Central Legislature.
- Sindh should be separated from Bombay only if the Committee certified that it was financially self-sufficient.
- The N. W. F. P. should be given full provincial status.
- Hindi should be made the official language of India.
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