FIRST ROUND TABLE CONFERENCE: INITIATIVE MADE BY THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT: THE MUSLIM PRESS IN MADRAS PRESIDENCY

In a letter to Wedge Wood Benn discussing the prospects of the proposed Round table Conference , Irwin expressed the view that the most opportune time for the conference was in 1924, after the legislative Assembly had adopted the motion of Motilal Nehru recommending to the Governor ?General the need of holding such a conference to settle the constitutional problem.The three Round table Conferences were organized by the British Government following the Simon Commission meeting so much resistance they did not even complete their report. Demand for Swaraj or Self-rule, in India had been growing increasingly strong. By the 1930s, the many British politicians believed that India needed to move towards dominion status.The Round Table Conference was opened officially by King George V on Thursday, November 13, 1930 and chaired by the British Prime Minister, Ramsay MacDonald.Numerous and conflicting claims required adjustment: firstly, of various communities in British India and the States; secondly, of British India and the states; thirdly, of India and Britain; and fourthly, of democracy and vested interests.Observing the impasse created over the RTC because of the non-cooperation of the Congress the Government released the Congress leaders and withdrew the notification declaring the Congress to be an unlawful association.