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Gandhian Era · 1928

Simon Commission Boycott

An all-British commission came to review India's constitution. Indians greeted it with black flags and 'Simon Go Back'. Lala Lajpat Rai died after a police lathi charge.

Causes

  • No Indian member on the commission
  • Demand for Indians to frame their own constitution

Consequences

  • Nehru Report (1928) proposed dominion status
  • Death of Lala Lajpat Rai led to Bhagat Singh's revenge attack
  • Bardoli Satyagraha the same year revived mass action

Significance

United almost all Indian parties in protest and set the stage for the Purna Swaraj demand.

People

Bhagat SinghJawaharlal Nehru

Sources

  1. Bipan Chandra et al., India's Struggle for Independence (Penguin, 1988)
  2. Sumit Sarkar, Modern India 1885–1947 (Macmillan, 1983)