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The Gandhi-Irwin pact led to a suspension of the civil disobedience movement and Gandhi’s participation in the second session. Only the Federal Structure and Minorities Committees resumed their work, as the government contended with a mounting economic crisis and a general election. Tensions between the Princes regarding models for federal integration, and between Hindu and Muslim delegates regarding weightage in the provinces, stymied the conference. It concluded with repeated government commitments to federation and pledges to continue work in India by travelling committees and by delegates working under the Viceroy in New Delhi.

The membership of the third conference session numbered 108. For selected delegate profiles, see the links below:

PresentSir Sultan Mahomed Shah, Aga Khan III (Member of Federal Structure Committee and Minorities Committee), Sir CP Ramaswami Aiyar, Sir Jai Singh Prabhakar, Maharaja of Alwar, Dr Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (Member of Federal Structure Committee and Minorities Committee), W Wedgwood Benn (Member of Federal Structure Committee and Minorities Committee), Sir Ganga Singh, Maharaja of Bikaner (Member of Federal Structure Committee), Dr SK Datta (Member of Minorities Committee), MK Gandhi (Member of Federal Structure Committee and Minorities Committee), KN Haksar (Member of Federal Structure Committee), Sir Samuel Hoare (Member of Federal Structure Committee and Minorities Committee), Sir Akbar Hydari (Member of Federal Structure Committee), Mukund Ramrao Jayakar (Member of Federal Structure Committee), Mahomed Ali Jinnah (Member of Federal Structure Committee), NM Joshi (Member of Federal Structure Committee and Minorities Committee), Philip Kerr, Marquess of Lothian (Member of Federal Structure Committee), J Ramsay MacDonald (Chairman of Minorities Committee), Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya (Member of Federal Structure Committee and Minorities Committee), Dr BS Moonje (Member of Minorities Committee), Sarojini Naidu (Member of Minorities Committee), Rufus Isaacs, Marquess of Reading (Member of Federal Structure Committee and Minorities Committee), Lord Sankey (Chairman of Federal Structure Committee), Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru (Member of Federal Structure Committee), Mian Sir Muhammad Shafi (Member of Federal Structure Committee and Minorities Committee), Jahan Ara Shahnawaz (Member of Minorities Committee), Radhabai Subbarayan (Member of Federal Structure Committee and Minorities Committee)
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