One controversial moment in India’s fight for freedom from British rule in the 1920s was the arrival of the members of the Indian Statutory Commission in 1928. The India Office Private Papers at the ...

Lala Lajpat Rai Jayanti: Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid tribute to freedom fighter Lala Lajpat Rai on his birth anniversary today. He led a silent march against the Simon Commission in 1928.

The Government of British India has been implementing the Act from time to time to check the functioning of government and improve the administration system. In this context, Simon Commission was ...

In 1928, the Simon Commission, established to study the working of the Government of India Act, 1919, and recommend constitutional reforms, visited India. The ignominy of a seven-member panel, solely ...