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After the WWII began, British sought cooperation from India. August Offer offered three proposals. Firstly, it called for an immediate expansion of Viceroy’s Executive Council with the inclusion of India representatives; secondly, an advisory body with the members from British India and Indian princely states which were supposed to meet at consequent intervals was established … Read more
Indian Statutory Commission chaired by Simon to go into the question of further constitutional reform All its seven members were Englishmen. Clement Attlee was one of the members. Lord Birkinhead was the secretary of state at that time At its Madras session in 1927 INC decided to boycott the commission “at every stage and in … Read more
Simon Commission (1927) Indian Statutory Commission chaired by Simon to go into the question of further constitutional reform All its seven members were Englishmen. Clement Attlee was one of the members. Lord Birkinhead was the secretary of state at that time At its Madras session in 1927 INC decided to boycott the commission “at every … Read more
British Expansion in India Here is a list of subtopics without any description for British Expansion in India: The East India Company The Battle of Plassey The Carnatic Wars The Third Anglo-Maratha War The Indian Rebellion of 1857 The British Raj The Indian Independence Movement The Partition of India The Republic of India The … Read more
The Simon Commission was a British parliamentary commission that was appointed in 1927 to investigate the constitutional future of India. The commission was named after its chairman, Sir John Simon, and consisted of seven members, all of whom were British. The commission visited India in 1928 and held public hearings in major cities across the … Read more
The Government of India Act (1858) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that transferred the government of India from the British East India Company to the British Crown. The Act was passed in response to the Indian Rebellion of 1857, which had led to the deaths of thousands of British and … Read more