All Parties Conferrance 1928

The freedom of the Government of India however from the leading strings of the Secretary of State necessarily postulates the tranfer of the political power from the British voter to the Indian voter. [...] We have provided for the protection of the rights of the minorities not only in the declaration of rights which in the peculiar circumstaces of India we consider to be necessary but we have dealt with the question at length in relation to the prblem of the representation of the minorities in the legilatures. [...] A few days later the Muslim League met in Calcutta and passed a resolution authorising' the Council of the League to appoint a sub-committee "to confer with the Working Committee of the Indian National Congress and such other organisations as the Council may think proper for the purpose of drafting a constitution for India in which the interest of the Muslim community will.be safeguarded" in the [...] The Council furthelaid down that its representatives should press the represetatives of various organisations to accept the proposals embodied in the resolution of the League Sessions of 1927 Calcutta and report the final result to the Council for such action as they consider proper before proceeding with the framing of the Constitution" This resolution of the Muslim League Council placed a [...] "The majority of the Committee" were therefore "of opinion that the terms of reference to them require the Committee to consider and determine the principles of a constitution for full responsible government on the model of the constittions of the self-governing dominions".