Simon Commission
The main reason the Simon Commission faced a widespread boycott across India upon its arrival in 1928.
What is having no Indian members on the commission (All-white commission)?
The senior Congress leader who headed the committee that drafted the 1928 Nehru Report.
Who is Motilal Nehru?
The starting location and final destination of Mahatma Gandhi’s Salt March in 1930.
What are Sabarmati and Ashram Dandi?
The primary commitment made by Mahatma Gandhi on behalf of the Indian National Congress as part of the pact.
What is Suspending the Civil Disobedience Movement?
The nationalist leader who died following severe injuries sustained during a police lathi charge while leading anti-Simon protests in Lahore.
Who is Lala Lajpat Rai?
The constitutional status demanded for India in the 1928 Nehru Report within the British Commonwealth.
What is Dominion Status?
The major motives of the civil disobedience
What are:
Violation of salt tax law
Reject foreign goods (including gov schools)
Mass strikes
No tax paid by Indians to British Government
The conference in London that Gandhi agreed to attend following the signing of the pact.
What is the Second Round Table Conference (1931)?
The British Secretary of State for India who arrogantly challenged Indian leaders to draft a constitution that all parties could agree on.
Who is Lord Birkenhead?
The electoral system rejected by the Nehru Report in favor of joint electorates with reserved seats for minorities.
What are Separate electorates?
What is Dharasana Satyagraha
A major concession granted by the British under the pact regarding political prisoners.
What is the release of non-violent political prisoners?
The main purpose of the Simon comission.
What is report on the working of the indian constitution established by the british government of India.
The Muslim leader who rejected the Nehru Report and formulated his own "14 Points" in 1929 to safeguard Muslim interests.
Who is Muhammad Ali Jinnah?
Why did they have a second roundtable conference.
What is wanting dominion status and not getting it. Which led to a second roundtable conference, also no congress representation in the first roundtable conference. And in the second one they only spoke about minorities dismissing dominion status.
The demand by Indian nationalists that Lord Irwin refused to accept during the negotiations, leading to executions on 23rd March, 1931
What is remitting the death sentences of Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev, and Rajguru?
What was the Lahore conspiracy?
The Lahore Conspiracy Case refers to the British trials that executed Indian revolutionaries, most notably Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev, and Rajguru in 1931 for assassinating a British police officer.
The deadline set by the 1928 Calcutta Congress session giving the British government time to accept the Nehru Report before full independence would be demanded.
What is One year (December 31, 1929)?
The real name of the 'Frontier Gandhi'. His achievements and movement.
Who is Abdul Ghaffar Khan. What is 'Khudai Khidmat Gars'. He was arrested with Nehru
Signed just days before the Gandhi-Irwin Pact, this revolutionary's execution on March 23, 1931, sparked massive public outrage against Gandhi for failing to secure his clemency.
"Who is Bhagat Singh?"