Modern Indian History

Simon Commission, Nehru Report and the Lahore Congress 1927-29

• Statutory Commission appointed November 1927 with no Indian member; all-party boycott, Lala Lajpat Rai's death after Lahore lathi charge 1928
• All Parties Conference, Nehru Report August 1928: dominion status, joint electorates with reservation, fundamental rights, linguistic provinces; Calcutta 1928 one-year ultimatum
• League's response: fourteen points on federation, separate electorates, one-third at centre, Sindh separation
• Irwin's Deepavali declaration 31 October 1929 and the Delhi Manifesto's conditions
• Lahore December 1929 under Jawaharlal Nehru: Purna Swaraj resolution, tricolour on Ravi bank, 26 January 1930 as Independence Day, Working Committee authorised to launch civil disobedience
• Gandhi's eleven demands of January 1930 including salt tax, 50 percent land revenue cut, prohibition, rupee ratio