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B. Provision shall be made, no act out below, for the participation 
      of the Indian States in the constitution-making body. 
 
                                                            
 
 
C. His Majesty's Government undertakes to accept and implement 
      forthwith the Constitution so framed, subject only to:
 
                                                            
 
 
(l) The right of any province of British India that is not 
      prepared to accept the new constitution to retain its present 
      constitutional position, provision being made for its subsequent 
                   accession if it so decides.              
 
                                                            
 
 
With such non-acceding Provinces, should they so desire, His 
      Majesty's Government will be prepared to agree upon a new constitution 
      giving them the same full status as Indian Union and arrived 
       at by a procedure analogous to that here laid down.  
 
                                                            
 
 
(2) The signing of a treaty, which shall be negotiated between 
      His Majesty's Government and the constitution-making body. This 
      treaty will cover all necessary matters arising out of the complete 
      transfer of responsibility from British to Indian hands; it will 
      make provision, in accordance with undertakings given by His 
      Majesty's Government, for the protection of racial end religious 
      minorities; but will not impose any restriction on the power 
      of the Indian Union to decide in future its relationship to the 
      other member states of the British Commonwealths. Whether or 
      not an Indian State elects to adhere to the