Nehru Report

Most of the leaders were rather cool toward her project, but it was somewhat revised by a so-called All-Parties Conference which met at Delhi in January–February, 1925, and was formally approved by a convention held at Kanpur in April.

The Viceroy, as the representative of the King-Emperor, was to have complete charge of military and naval forces and foreign relations until the Indian Parliament by its own act should signify its readiness to assume control.

A similar challenge was made in 1925 by Lord Birkenhead, Secretary of State for India, in the House of Lords: ... let the Indians produce a constitution which carries behind it a fair measure of general agreement among the great peoples of India...Leaders of the nationalist movement responded to the challenge by drafting the Nehru Report.

In reaction Mohammad Ali Jinnah drafted his Fourteen Points in 1929 which became the core demands of the Muslim community which they put forward as the price of their participating in an independent united India.

Their main objections were: According to Mohammad Ali Jinnah, “The Committee has adopted a narrow minded policy to ruin the political future of the Muslims.

Neera Chandhoke's in her chapter in The Indian Constituent Assembly (edited) argued that "the inclusion of social and cultural rights in a predominantly liberal constitution appears extraordinary".