Misc Reform Commissions Flashcards
Commission Name & Chairman
Details & Viceroy/Governor-General
Lottery Committee & Standing Committee
Assisted the government in the task of town planning in Calcutta, Lord Hastings
Royal Commission on Opium & Thomas Brassey
The commission focused on the medical impacts of opium consumption within British India, Opium sales to the public were to remain legal but regulated, Lord Lansdowne
Robertson Commission & Sir Thomas Robertson
To enquire into and report on the administration and working of the Indian Railways, Resulted in increasing the number of railway lines, Transferring management of the railways from the Public Works Department to a Railway Board, Lord Curzon
Royal Commission on Decentralization & Sir Henry Primrose (resigned) + H. Hobhouse
To improve financial and administrative relations at all levels of government in India, Lord Minto
Indian Industrial Commission & Sir Thomas Holland
To examine and report upon the possibilities of further industrial development in India, Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya was a member, Recommended that future Government must play an active part in the industrial development of the country, with the aim of making India more self-contained in respect of men and material, Creation of Imperial Industrial Service, Lord Chelmsford
Disorders Enquiry Committee & Lord W.W. Hunter
To investigate disturbances in Bombay, Delhi and the Punjab, their causes, and the measures taken to cope with them, Lord Chelmsford
Reforms Enquiry Committee & Sir Alexander Muddiman
To enquire into functioning of Dyarchy and if it can be implemented at Centre, Lord Reading
Butler Committee & Sir Harcourt Butler
To examine the relation between native states and the paramount power (Crown), To inquire into the financial and economic relations between British India and the states, Lord Irwin
Indian States Enquiry Committee & Lord Davidson
To consider the relation between Indian States i.e. Princely States and British India, Lord Willingdon
Grievances Enquiry Commission & Kashmir State Appointed
Steps to promote Muslim education, return of government-occupied Muslim religious buildings, partial suspension of a grazing tax, and payments for state-requisitioned labour failed to stop a growing movement led by Sheikh Abdullah against Maharaja, Lord Willingdon
Indian Franchise Committee & Lord Lothian
Born out of Second Round Table Conference, To examine ways to increase the number of voters and widen the electorate, Lord Willingdon
Federal Finance Committee & Lord Percy
To consider the financial aspects of Lord Peel’s Federal Structure Committee in the future constitutional scheme of India i.e. GOI 1935, To make forecast of federal and provincial finance forecasts, Lord Willingdon
Sapru Committee & Tej Bahadur Sapru
Appointed by the Non-Party Conference in November 1944 to resolve issues pertaining to minorities, Resolve impasse between INC and the Muslim league over the constitutional future of India, contained provisions relating to the executive, legislature, judiciary, public services etc., Lord Irwin
