 The 

Nehru Report of 28-30 August, 1928 was a

memorandum outlining a proposed new dominion status
 constitution for India. It was prepared by a committee of
the All Parties Conference chaired by Motilal Nehru with
his son Jawaharlal Nehru acting as secretary. There were
nine other members in this committee. The final report
was signed by Motilal Nehru, Ali Imam, Tej Bahadur
Sapru, Madhav Shrihari Aney, Mangal Singh, Shuaib
Qureshi, Subhas Chandra Bose, and G. R. Pradhan.
Qureshi disagreed with some of the
recommendations.Nehru Lal report 1928.
 Nehru Report was given in response of Simon
Commission (1927) report. As Simon Commission
excluded the Indians from the meditation and
recommendations which outraged the Indians. To
add more insult to injury, Lord Birkenhead (in 1925
and 1927) challenged the Indians to reach an
agreed constitution if they were capable enough to
do that. The Indian National Congress decided to
find an indigenous solution of the problems
through a constitution and formed a committee
under Moti Lal Nehru on August 10 1927.
 The Committee invited the Muslim League,
Hindu Mahasbha, Sikh Central League and the
other remarkable political parties to join
hands in framing the constitution of the Sub-
Continent. The Muslim League disagreed with
the Congress in the points concluded by
Nehru. At the fourth meeting, Moti Lal Nehru
presented his report known as Nehru Report.
The main features of the Nehru Report were
as under:
 “India should be given the status of a dominion.
 There should be 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.
 System of weightage for minorities was as bad as
that of separate electorates.
 Reservation of Muslim seats could be possible in the
provinces where Muslim population was at least 10
percent, but this was to be in strict proportion to the
size of the community.
 Muslims should enjoy one/fourth representation in the

Central Legislature
 Sindh should be separated from Bombay only if the

certified that it was financially self-sufficient.

 The N.W.F.P should be given full provincial status.
 A new Kanarese-speaking province Karnatik should be

established in South India.

 Hindi should be made the official language of India”
 The Nehru Report was an eye-opening episode for the
Muslims of India as it totally bypassed them and the later
could well imagine their future in case of the approval of these
recommendations. The report denied the separate electorate
for the Muslims which the Congress had agreed with earlier. It
ignored even the Delhi Proposals while formulating the report.
 Nehru showed two Muslims participating in the Report (to
justify the Muslim presence); one was Syed Ali Imam who
could attend only one meeting out of while Shoaib Qureshi,
the other member could not approve the Congress views.
Therefore, Nehru Report stayed only a Hindu report ignoring
other parties especially the Muslim League, the biggest
Muslim entity. Consequently, the Muslim leaders rejected the
Report.
 “Any sensible person cannot Muslims will
accept these insulting conditions, said Sir
Agha Khan about the Nehru Report. Jinnah
responded to the Nehru Report by saying that
“From now the paths of Hindus and Muslims
are separate.”
 “There should be no less than one/third representation in
the Central Legislature.
 In event of the adult suffrage not being established, Punjab
and Bengal should have seats reserved on population basis
for the Musalmans.
 The form of the constitution should be federal with
residuary powers vested in the provinces. This question is
by far the most important from the constitutional point of
view.
 With regard to the separation of Sindh and NWFP, we cannot
wait until the Nehru Report is established…The Musalmans
feel that it is shelving the issue and postponing their
insistent demand till doomsday and they cannot agree to it.”
Jinnah Fourteen Points
 The report was given in a meeting of the council of the 
All India Muslim League on 9 March 1929. The 
Nehru Report was criticised by Muslim leaders Aga Khan
 and Muhammad Shafi . They considered it as a death
warrant because it recommended joint electoral rolls for
Hindus and Muslims.
 Muhammad Ali Jinnah left for England in May 1928 and
returned after six months. In March 1929, the Muslim
League session was held at Delhi under the presidency of
Jinnah. In his address to his delegates, he consolidated
Muslim viewpoints under fourteen items and these
fourteen points became Jinnah's 14 points.
 The form of the future constitution should be federal, with the
residuary powers vested in the provinces;
 A uniform measure of autonomy shall be guaranteed to all

provinces;
 All legislatures in the country and other elected bodies shall be

constituted on the definite principle of adequate and effective 

representation of minorities in every province without reducing
the majority in any province to a minority or even equality;
 In the Central Legislature, Muslim representation shall not be less

than one third;

 Representation of communal groups shall continue to be by

means of separate electorate as at present: provided it shall be

open to any community, at any time to abandon its separate
electorate in favor of a joint electorate.
 Any territorial distribution that might at any time be necessary shall
not in any way affect the Muslim majority.
 Full religious liberty, i.e. liberty of belief, worship and observance,
propaganda, association and education, shall be guaranteed to all
communities.
 No bill or resolution or any part thereof shall be passed in any
legislature or any other elected body if three fourths of the members
of any community in that particular body oppose it as being injurious
to the interests of that community or in the alternative, such other
method is devised as may be found feasible and practicable to deal
with such cases.
 Sindh should be separated from the Bombay Presidency.
 Reforms should be introduced in the North West Frontier Province and 
Balochistan on the same footing as in the other provinces.
 Provision should be made in the constitution giving Muslims an
adequate share, along with the other Indians, in all the services of
the state and in local self-governing bodies having due regard to
the requirements of efficiency.
 The constitution should embody adequate safeguards for the
protection of Muslim culture and for the protection and promotion
of Muslim education, language, religion, personal laws and Muslim
charitable institutions and for their due share in the grants-in-aid
given by the state and by local self-governing bodies.
 No cabinet, either central or provincial, should be formed without
there being a proportion of at least one-third Muslim ministers.
 No change shall be made in the constitution by the Central
Legislature except with the concurrence of the States constituting
of the Indian Federation.