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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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NEHRU KEY
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REPORT
What is the Nehru POINTS
Report? BACKGROUN Factor and Conclusion
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In November 1927
What is the Nehru Report?
● The Nehru Report of 15 August 1928 was
a memorandum that proposed a new
dominion status for India. It was also aimed
to set up a federal government for the
constitution of India and asked to devise
Joint Electorates with reservation of seats
for minorities. 
● The All Parties Conference were the ones
that prepared this report. Motilal Nehru
was the chairman and his son Jawaharlal
Nehru was the secretary. The committee
consisted of nine other members.
 BACKGROUND
“This is a quote. Words full of wisdom that someone important sIn November 1927, the British
Government had appointed the Simon Commission to see how the Government of India was working.
He was also assigned to give constitutional reforms for India.
Since the commission didn’t have any Indian members, many leaders revolted against the Simon
Commission. 
Even after the revolt, the British didn’t make any changes to the commission. Instead, they asked the
Indians to frame the constitution themselves.  Lord Birkenhead, Secretary of State for India
challenged Indians by saying this statement, ‘… let the Indians produce a constitution which carries
behind it a fair measure of general agreement among the great peoples of India…’
This challenge was accepted by many nationalists and the Nehru Report is the result of it. The Indian
National Congress responded to the Simon Commission by doing this two things:
Congress didn’t provide any cooperation to the Commission
To draft the Constitution of India, Congress set up an All Parties Conference
aid and can make the reader get inspired.”
• KEY POINTS
The Nehru Report consisted of the following points:
• Dominion status for India (This was the major point in the report. This is the reason why the report
was drafted in the first place)
• Bill of Rights
• 19 fundamental rights that allow both men and women above 21 years to vote
• Equal rights to all men and women
• There will be no state religion and at the same time, separate electorates will not be provided to any
separate community
• Although it did provide reservations of minority seats
• Special reservations were provided to the Muslims and the minority present in the provinces
• The language of the country would be mainly Indian which would either be written in Devanagari
(Sanskrit/Hindi)
• Usage of other languages like Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Bengali, Marathi or Gujarati will be allowed
as well
• English can also be used
• The report demanded a federal form of government
• There should be a bicameral legislature at the centre and the ministry would be responsible for it
• The Governor-General would be the constitutional head
• The Supreme Court should be formulated and provinces would be devised along linguistic lines
CONCLUSION

The Nehru Report wanted to give equal rights to

all Indians. This report laid the foundation for the
provision of the Fundamental right in India. It all
started with a challenge given by the Britishers to
frame our own Constitution. We gave a powerful
response to them by laying down the major
fundamental rights that guarantees every Indian
equal respect and opportunities.
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YOU
RAO ABDUL HAI (29)
TEHREEM RASHEED()
FIZZA ()