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INDIAN INDEPENDENCE
STRUGGLE - SIMON COMMISSION |
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Date-wise Events |
- February 3, 1928: Almost
immediately with its arrival in Bombay on this day, the
Simon Commission was confronted by throngs of protesters.
The entire country started a strike, and many people turned
out to greet the Commission with black flags.
- October 30, 1928: The Simon
Commission arrived in Lahore where it was met by protesters
waving black flags. The Lahore protest was led by Indian
nationalist
Lala Lajpat Rai, who had moved a resolution against the
Commission in the Legislative Assembly of Punjab in February
1928. In order to make way for the Commission, the local
police force began beating protestors with their sticks.
- November 17, 1928: During
the Lahore protests, the police were particularly brutal
towards
Lala Lajpat Rai who was seriously injured because of
merciless beating by the police, as a result of which he
later succumbed to such injuries on this day.
- November 30, 1930: First
round table conference began on this day to consider its
report.
- December 28, 1931: MAHATMA
GANDHI returned from London after the deadlock in the second
Round Table Conference. Thereafter he launched the second
phase of the Civil Disobedience Movement. The Indian
National Congress was declared illegal.
- August 04, 1935: The
outcome of the Simon Commission was the
Government of India Act 1935, which established
representative government at the provincial level in India
and is the basis of many parts of the Indian Constitution.
In 1937 the first elections were held in the Provinces,
resulting in Congress Governments being returned in almost
all Provinces.
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Description |
- The Indian Statutory Commission was a group of seven
British Members of Parliament of United Kingdom that had
been dispatched to India in 1928 to study constitutional
reform in Britain's most important colonial dependency. It
was commonly referred to as the Simon Commission after its
chairman, Sir John Simon. One of its members was Clement
Attlee, who subsequently became the British Prime Minister
and eventually oversaw the granting of independence to India
and Pakistan in 1947.
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