The Conference of 1945 was a meeting between the Viceroy of India Lord Wavell and the major political leaders of British India.

Wavell plan at Shimla conference proposed the following:

●  The Viceroy’s Executive Council would be immediately reconstituted and the number of its members would be increased.

●  In the Council there would be equal representation of high-caste Hindus and Muslims.

●  All the members of the Council, except the Viceroy and the Commander-in-Chief, would be Indians.

●  An Indian would be appointed as the member for Foreign Affairs in the Council. However, a British commissioner would be responsible for trade matters.

●  The defense of India would remain in British hands until power was ultimately transferred to Indians.

●  The Viceroy would convene a meeting of Indian politicians including the leaders of Congress and the Muslim League at which they would nominate members of the new Council.

●  If this plan were to be approved for the central government, then similar councils of local political leaders would be formed in all the provinces.

●  None of the changes suggested would in any way prejudice or prejudge the essential form of the future permanent Constitution of India.