constitution, it will be necessary to negotiate a revision of its treaty agreements, so far as this may be required in the new situation. D. The constitution-making body shall be composed as follows, unless the leaders of Indian opinion in the principal communities agree upon some other form before the end or hostilitie Immediately upon the result being known of the provincial elections which will be necessary at the end of hostilities, the entire membership of the Lower Houses of the Provincial Legislatures shall, as a single electoral college, proceed to the election of a constitution-making body by s system of proportional representation. This new body shall be in number about one-tenth of the number of the electoral college. The Indian States shall be invited to appoint representatives in the same proportion to their total population as in the case of representatives of British India as a whole, and with the same powers as British Indian members. K. While during the critical period which now faces India and until the new constitution ca be framed, His Majesty's Government must inevitably bear full responsibility for the defense of India, they desire and invite the immediate and effectual participation of the leaders of the principal sections of the Indian people in the counsels of their country, of the Commonwealth and of the United Nations. Thus they will be enabled to give their active and Constructive |