Simon Commission (1927), Nehru Report (1928) and Round Table Conferences

The Government of India Act, 1919, had promised a review after ten years. When the review commission finally arrived in 1927, not one of its members was Indian — and “Simon Go Back” became the loudest slogan on Indian streets in years. What followed was an Indian attempt to write its own constitution, and then three London conferences trying to build one instead.

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The all-British Simon Commission of 1927 was boycotted almost universally in India, provoking the Indians themselves to draft the Nehru Report of 1928 as an alternative constitution, while the three Round Table Conferences of 1930-32 tried, with only partial Indian participation, to negotiate the next stage of constitutional reform.

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