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12 Nov 1930
Event location:
London
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Organizer:
Labour Government
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Indian Round Table Conference, St. James's Palace: Delegates from the
Indian States and British India (London, 1931)
Secondary works:
Bridge, Carl, Holding India to the Empire: The British Conservative Party
and the 1935 Constitution (New Delhi: Sterling Publishers, 1986)
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SIMON REPORT
Date:
07 Jun 1930
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In London, the Workers' Welfare League of India and the London Branch
of the Indian National Congress organized a demonstration against the
Commission. Some 200 demonstrators marched from Trafalgar Square
to Victoria Station; many of the demonstrators were removed by the
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police. Shapurji Saklatvala, who led the demonstration, raised the issue
in Parliament but was informed that the Home Secretary, Joynson Hicks,
had sanctioned this police operation.
In the wake of the Report, a series of Round Table Conferences were set
up from 1930 to 1932. The outcome of the Commission and the
Conferences was the Government of India Act 1935. The Act ended the
dyarchy and direct elections were introduced for the first time. Sind was
separated from Bombay, Orissa was separated from Bihar and Burma
was separated from India. Provincial assemblies were to include more
elected Indian representatives, who could lead majorities and form
governments. However, governors retained discretionary powers
regarding summoning of legislatures, giving assent to bills and
administering certain special regions.
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Andrews, C. F., India and the Simon Report (London: George Allen &
Unwin, 1930)
Banerji, Sir Albion Rajkumar and Menon, V. K. Krishna, The Report and
the Conference: Being an Study of the Simon Report (1930)
Besant, Annie Wood, The Simon Report (London: India Bookshop, for
the Commonwealth of India League, 1930)
Bridge, Carl, Holding India to the Empire: The British Conservative Party
and the 1935 Constitution (New Delhi: Sterling Publishers, 1986)
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Moghe, Krishnaji Balvant, The Indian States in Their Relations with the
British Paramount Power and the Government of British India: The
Butler Committee and the Statutory Commission on Indian Reforms
(Bombay, 1928)
Ratcliffe, Samuel Kerkham, What the Simon Report Means (London: New
Statesman, 1930)
Simon, Sir John Allsebrook, India and the Simon Report: A Talk (New
York: Coward-MacCann, 1930)
Times (1917-1935)
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Archive source:
Mss Eur C 152, Holifax Collection, Asian and African Studies Reading
Room, British Library, St Pancras
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