Prelims 2013 · Modern History and the Freedom Struggle · Question 89
The people of India agitated against the arrival of Simon Commission because
Answer
There was no Indian member in the Simon Commission
- (a) Incorrect. Indians did not oppose a review of the 1919 Act as such; they opposed the manner in which the Commission was constituted.
- (b) Incorrect. The agitation began on the Commission’s arrival in 1928, before its recommendations were known; abolition of dyarchy in provinces was a later recommendation.
- (c) Correct. The Simon Commission had no Indian member; it was an all-British body, which triggered the slogan “Simon Go Back.”
- (d) Incorrect. The Commission did not suggest partition of India; partition became an issue much later in a different political context.