When did simon commission came to india why was it boycotted?
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November 1927
Simon Commission, group appointed in November 1927 by the British Conservative government under Stanley Baldwin to report on the working of the Indian constitution established by the Government of India Act of 1919.
Simon Commission is an important segment of Indian history preparation for IAS exam. The Simon Commission was a group of 7 MPs from Britain who was sent to India in 1928 to study constitutional reforms and make recommendations to the government.
The Simon Commission was opposed primarily because it did not have any Indian representation in the assemblage. The government of Britain had appointed this Commission in 1927. The goal of the Simon Commission was to give an account of how the Indian constitution was working.
Set up in response to the Nationalist movement the commission was to look into the functioning of the constitutional system in India and suggest changes. The main reason behind the boycott of Simon Commission was that the commission did not have a single Indian member. They were all British