Communal rivalries were also noticed when the government initiated discussions of further constitutional advances for India. The Simon Commission and the three sessions of the Round Table Conference in London, failed to evole an agreeable formula. The Indian leaders also tried to reach a negotiated settlement of the communal claims but they too failed. The Delhi proposals and later the ‘Fourteen Points’ of Quaid-i-Azam were rejected by the Hindus and the Nehru Report was not acceptable to the Muslims. The Hindus pressurized the government to cancel the separate electorates; they were also opposed to the idea of reservation of seats for Muslims in various legislatures, and rejected Muslims claims to have majority even in their majority provinces like Punjab. However, in August 1932, a Communal Award was announced in which separate electorates for the Muslims were allowed to continue. The Muslims took a sigh of relief because their separate identity had been recognized but in the pattern of provincial seat weight age to Muslims in the minority provinces which had been given at the cost of the Punjab and Bengal.

The Congress rejected the Award because it recognized not only the existence of Muslim minority, but all other minorities had also been given proportional representation in provincial assemblies. The Quaid on his return to India approved the Award with a few suggestions for amendment in the formation of the Central Assembly. This brought him back in the Indian politics. The main task before him was now to consolidate the Muslim Nation.

The process of constitution making had gone through many stages from Government of India Act 1919 to Communal Award in 1932. The Draft Constitution had reflected a change in British attitude. They had recognized the role of Muslim majority provinces as well as those of larger number of Hindu majority provinces. The balance was to be achieved in the Centre by giving provincial autonomy. Later on as a result of that, first general elections were held in India in 1937 on the basis of expanded franchise.