First Round Table Conference (1930)
- The First Round Table Conference was officially inaugurated by King George V on November 12, 1930.
- Ramsay MacDonald presided over the first Round Table Conference.
- This was the first conference arranged between the British and the Indians as equals.
- People who did not attend – Congress and the Indian Business Community.
- Attended by
- Princely states
- Muslim League, Hindus, Justice Party, Sikhs, liberals, Parsis, Christians, Anglo-Indians, Europeans, representatives of the landlords, depressed classes, women, universities, Sindh, Burma, other provinces, and also the representatives from the Government of India.
Second Round Table Conference (1931)
- It is considered as an after effect of the Gandhi – Irwin pact.
- Participants
- Indian princely states
- Government of India – C. P. Ramaswami Iyer, Narendra Nath Law, M. Ramachandra Rao
- Congress – Mahatma Gandhi
- Muslim League – Aga Khan III, Maulana Shaukat Ali, Muhammad Ali Jinnah
- Hindus – M. R. Jayakar, B. S. Moonje, Diwan Bahadur Raja Narendra Nath
- Depressed Classes – B. R. Ambedkar, Rettamalai Srinivasan
- Indian Christians – Surendra Kumar Datta, A. T. Pannirselvam
- Women – Sarojini Naidu, Begum Jahanara Shahnawaz, Radhabai Subbarayan
- Representatives of – liberals, Justice Party, Sikhs, Parsies, Labour, Universities and Industrialists, were also present.
- Outcome
- Creation of North West Frontier Province and Sindh.
- Communal Award.
Third Round Table Conference (1932)
- Not Participated by – Indian National Congress and Gandhi
- Participated by
- Indian princely states
- Depressed Classes – Ambedkar
- Anglo Indians – Nanak Chand Pandit, A. H. Ghuznavi, Henry Gidney
- Labour Class – N. M. Joshi
- Women – Begum Jahanara Shahnawaz