THE SIMON COMMISSION 1927

1. THE SIMON
COMMISSION 1927

2. John Allsebrook Simon

3. Background
 According to the Montagu Chelmsford
reforms 1 919, after ten years, new
reformations were to be implemented. From
that perspective, the British government
started working on it before time. The
government decided to send a constitutional
commission to India, to evaluate the
political situation and propose a constitution
for India.

4.  On 8th November 1927, the government
announced the “Indian Statutory
Commission” which was a group of seven
Members of Parliament under the
chairmanship of Sir John Simon. That
commission is known as the Simon
Commission.

5.  All the members of that committee were
Britishers. There was no Indian member of
the commission. So, it was boycotted both
by the Congress and the Muslim League.
While Sir Muhammad Shafi cooperated with
it. At the time of the Simon Commission,
the Muslim League had already been
divided into two parts i.e. Jinnah League
and the Shafi League due to Delhi Muslim
Suggestions.

6. Simon Commission
Arrived in India
 The Commission, headed by Sir John Allsebrook
Simon, reached British India on February 3, 1928, to
study constitutional reform in Britain’s largest and
most important possession.
 • London
 • Bombay (3rd Feb 1928)
 • Karachi
 • Quetta
 • Peshawar
 • Delhi

7.  • Lahore ( 30 Oct 1928: Lajpat Rai led &
Abdul Qadir Qureshi, Moulana Zafer ALi)
 • Lucknow
 • Patna
 • Calcutta
 • Rangoon
 • Madras
 • Nagpur Abdul Azim Akhtar
 Note:(February – March, and October 1928 –
April 1929)

8. Suggestions of Simon
Commission
 The Commission published its report in 1930
which contained several constitutional
proposals, which are as follows.
 1. Federal system of government should be
implemented in the Sub-Continent.
 2. In the provinces, the dual system would be
finished and autonomy would be given.
 3. Sind would be separated from Bombay

9.  4 • In N. W. F. P., the same constitutional
reformation should be implemented.
 5. The system of a separate electorate
would be continued.
 6. In the Muslim Minority provinces, Muslims
would be given more representation than
their population.
 7. No reserved seats would be their in
Punjab and Bengal.

10.  8. The demand of 1/3 Muslim
representations in the central council
should be rejected by giving him
representation according to their
population
 9. In the province, ministries would be
given proportional representation.
 10. The status of central administration
should be continued and it should not be
changed.

11. Thank YOU