Timeline
31 October 1929
Following the Commission's report and the Irwin Declaration of —in which Viceroy Lord Irwin affirmed that "Dominion Status" was the natural constitutional go…
12 November 1930
The conference opened on at St James's Palace, London, and continued until 19 January 1931.
19 January 1931
The conference opened on 12 November 1930 at St James's Palace, London, and continued until .
5 March 1931
The First Round Table Conference must be distinguished from the Second Round Table Conference (September–December 1931), which Gandhi attended as the sole Co…
16 August 1932
The communal question—separate electorates versus joint electorates with reservation—remained unresolved and would harden through the Second Conference into…
24 September 1932
The communal question—separate electorates versus joint electorates with reservation—remained unresolved and would harden through the Second Conference into…
Positions at a glance
Indian National Congress
Among the named participants, the Muslim League was represented by Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Aga Khan III (who chaired the British Indian delegation), and Sir Muhammad Shafi; the Liberals by Tej Bahadur Sapru, V. S. Srinivasa Sastri, and C. Y. Chintamani; the Hindu Mahasabha and Justice Party also sent delegates, as did the Sikhs and Anglo-Indians. B. R. Ambedkar attended as a representative of the Depressed Classes, and Begum Shah Nawaz and Radhabai Subbarayan represented women. The conspicuous absence was the Indian National Congress, which had launched the Civil Disobedience Movement in March 1930 with the Dandi Salt March and whose leadership, including Mahatma Gandhi, was imprisoned. Without Congress—the principal mass organisation of Indian nationalism—the conference lacked the authority to bind the country to any settlement.
All-India Muslim League
Among the named participants, the Muslim League was represented by Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Aga Khan III (who chaired the British Indian delegation), and Sir Muhammad Shafi; the Liberals by Tej Bahadur Sapru, V. S. Srinivasa Sastri, and C. Y. Chintamani; the Hindu Mahasabha and Justice Party also sent delegates, as did the Sikhs and Anglo-Indians. B. R. Ambedkar attended as a representative of the Depressed Classes, and Begum Shah Nawaz and Radhabai Subbarayan represented women. The conspicuous absence was the Indian National Congress, which had launched the Civil Disobedience Movement in March 1930 with the Dandi Salt March and whose leadership, including Mahatma Gandhi, was imprisoned. Without Congress—the principal mass organisation of Indian nationalism—the conference lacked the authority to bind the country to any settlement.
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In November 1930, Aga Khan III chaired the British Indian delegation at the First Round Table Conference in London, while the Indian National Congress boycotted the talks as Gandhi remained imprisoned for the Salt Satyagraha.
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