Simon Commission and the Nehru Report

Question 1

Simon commission under prime ministership of

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Stanley Baldwin’s

Question 2

Mudiman Commission looked into the

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deadlock within the diarchic dispensation

Question 3

Linlithgow Commission

Answer 3

inquired into the crisis of Indian agriculture

Question 4

The Congress session in decided to boycott the

commission “at every stage and in every form

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Madras (December 1927) meeting under the presidency of M.A. Ansari

Question 5

The Muslim league had two sessions in 1927

– one under

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Jinnah at Calcutta where it was decided to oppose

the Simon Commission

Question 6

The Muslim league had two sessions in 1927 another

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at Lahore under

Muhammad Shafi, who supported the government

Question 7

decided not to boycott the commission

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Unionists in Punjab and the Justice Party

Question 8

r was appointed by the Bombay Legislative Council

to work with the Simon Commission

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Dr Ambedkar

Question 9

Dr Ambedkar submitted a memorandum on the rights and safeguards he felt were required for the depressed classes

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On behalf of the Bahishkrita Hitakarini Sabha

Question 10

The Simon Commission Recommendations

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proposed the abolition of dyarchy

then establishment of representative government in the provinces which should be given autonomy

governor should have discretionary power in relation to internal security and administrative powers

rejected parliamentary responsibility at the
centre

There was to be no universal franchise

Question 11

Consultative Council of Greater
India should be established which should include
representatives of both the British provinces as well as
princely states

Answer 11

The Simon Commission Recommendations

Question 12

It suggested that the North-West Frontier Province and Baluchistan should get local legislatures

Answer 12

The Simon Commission Recommendations

Question 13

Sindh should be separated from

Bombay, and Burma should be separated from India

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The Simon Commission Recommendations

Question 14

also suggested that the Indian army should be

Indianised though British forces must be retained

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The Simon Commission Recommendations

Question 15

All Parties Conference met in February 1928 and appointed a subcommittee under the chairmanship of to draft a constitution

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Motilal Nehru

Question 16

Other members of Motilal Nehru committee

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The committee included Tej Bahadur Sapru, Subhash Bose, M.S. Aney, Mangal Singh, Ali Imam, Shuab Qureshi and G.R. Pradhan as its members

Question 17

Delhi Proposals of Muslim League accepted by

the

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Madras session of the Congress (December 1927

Question 18

Jinnah’s Fourteen Points

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March 1929

Question 19

rejected the Congress’ modified

goal and jointly set up the Independence for India League

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Nehru and Subhash Bose