Simon Commission (1927)
- The Act of 1919 provided for the appointment of a Commission to assess the functioning of the government at the end of ten years.
- In November 1927, Lord Birkenhead, Secretary of State for India appointed the Indian Statutory Commission, known popularly after the name of its chairman as the Simon commission, to go into the question of further constitutional reform.
- All the members of the commission were Englishmen. The British action was seen as a violation of the principle of self-determination and a deliberate insult to the self-respect of the Indians.
- It recommended that Dyarchy in the provinces should be abolished and ministers ....
