Indian Leaders Assemble (1946)

Unissued / unused material - location and date unclear or unknown. India. Various shots of meetings held in New Delhi. Shots outside Parliament / Government House. VS of people arriving for the meeting. Old record suggests those in attendance include - Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Maulana Abdul Azad, Dr Sachidanand Sinha, Pandit Ravi Shanker Shukla, Palachari Rajagopelachari, Sir S. Radhakrishnan, Rajendra Prasad, Valhabhai Patel, Pandit Govind Vallabh Pant, BG Kher, Mrs Sarojini Naidu, KM Munsku, Acharya Kripalani, Abdul Gafar Khan, Shankar Rao Deo, Maharajah of Darbhanga, Rohini Kumar Chowdhary, Mrs Kamaladevi Chotopadhyaya. These two meetings, of the Indian Constituent Assembly and Indian National Assembly, are mixed together in these cuts but if there is ever the necessity of identifying particular conferences. At the Constituent assembly (held at the Library Hall of the Council Chamber New Delhi) members sat at benches whereas at the National Congress session they sat cross legged on matrices at Me
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