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SSC CGL 2019 PYQ — Question 31

SSC CGL - 6th June 2019 - Shift 3 • General Awareness • Q31

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The ________ was a group of seven Members of Parliament from the United Kingdom, constituted to suggest constitutional reforms for British India. 

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Correct answer: D

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The correct answer is option 4 i.e. Simon Commission.

Simon Commission

It was a group of seven White members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which was constituted to suggest constitutional reforms in British India.

What is Simon's commission?
  • Simon Commission was a group of seven White members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which was constituted to suggest constitutional reforms in British India.
  • It was constituted in 1927 and it reached India in 1928. It was criticized by national leaders and welcomed with black flags.
  • The main critics of this commission were that it had no Indian Member. Indian masses protested on their arrival with slogans of ‘ Simon go back’.
  • The Indian Statutory Commission, commonly referred to as the Simon Commission after its chairman Sir John Allsebrook Simon was sent to India in 1928 (February - March, and October 1928 - April 1929) to study potential constitutional reform.