Modern history

Concepts to cover

1. Statutory Commission appointed November 1927 with no Indian member; all-party boycott, Lala Lajpat Rai's death after Lahore lathi charge 1928
2. All Parties Conference, Nehru Report August 1928: dominion status, joint electorates with reservation, fundamental rights, linguistic provinces; Calcutta 1928 one-year ultimatum
3. League's response: fourteen points on federation, separate electorates, one-third at centre, Sindh separation
4. Irwin's Deepavali declaration 31 October 1929 and the Delhi Manifesto's conditions
5. 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
6. Gandhi's eleven demands of January 1930 including salt tax, 50 percent land revenue cut, prohibition, rupee ratio