RAS question
The Nehru Report (1928) was prepared by a committee headed by:
Correct answer: (D) Motilal Nehru.
The Nehru Report of 1928 was prepared by a committee headed by Motilal Nehru.
Explanation
Motilal Nehru is the answer because the Nehru Report was prepared by a committee chaired by him, with Jawaharlal Nehru serving as secretary. That distinction matters in RAS questions: the report is often tested through the roles attached to the same Nehru surname. Its demands included Dominion Status, joint electorates with reserved seats for minorities, and fundamental rights. The report therefore belongs to the wider constitutional phase of the national movement, when Indian leaders were setting out their own constitutional proposals. Jinnah rejected it and later proposed his Fourteen Points, which makes the report a useful marker for both constitutional demands and communal-political disagreement in the late 1920s.
Why the other options are wrong
- (A) M.A. Ansari was not the chairman of the committee that prepared the Nehru Report.
- (B) Subhas Chandra Bose does not fit because he is linked with opposition to the Dominion Status demand, not with chairing the report committee.
- (C) Jawaharlal Nehru was the secretary of the committee, so this option mistakes the secretary for the chairman.
Concept
This tests constitutional developments in the Indian national movement, especially the link between a major report, its leadership and its demands. It recurs in RAS because one compact fact cluster connects Motilal Nehru, Dominion Status, fundamental rights and Jinnah's Fourteen Points.