Round Table Conference - Definition and Overview

First Round Table Conference was held in November 1930 was attended by eighty-nine delegates from different religious, political groups and princely states. The Indian National Congress, then engaged in civil disobedience, was not represented. Lacking representation from the Congress and preoccupied with problems of federation, the first conference adjourned in January 1931, without having made appreciable progress on the issue of communal representation.

The Round Table Conference between the Netherlands and Indonesia was held between 23 August and 31 October 1949 at the Hague.