Map showing location of Mumbai City District in Maharashtra
The first All India States Peoples’ Conference (AISPC) happened on 17 December, 1927 in erstwhile Bombay, in the region around present-day Mumbai City District of Maharashtra.
The first session of AISPC was an outcome of the long-drawn efforts of local movements and individual leaders and activists, fighting for the democratic rights of the people in the princely states. Presided by Dewan Bahadur Ram Chandra Rao, AISPC's first session had more than 1500 attendee delegates from more than 70 states. The conference passed strongly worded resolutions which made wide ranging demands such as social, economic, and political rights; representative political institutions; free speech and press, etc. It also condemned the degenerated lifestyles of the princely rulers. The conference expressed a wish to gather support for its endeavours, by the Indian National Congress and assigned M. Kothari and B. S. Pathik- two senior leaders of the AISPC, to lobby and secure the same. The efforts of these leaders bore fruits when in its 1927 Madras Session, the Congress decided to back the democratic struggle of the people of the princely states.
The AISPC went on to have several more sessions and was instrumental in shaping a centralised freedom movement in the princely states.
Source: Indian Culture Portal