The Gandhian phase 1915-1939
Simon Commission, Nehru Report and the Lahore Congress 1927-29
Practise 3 PYQsConcepts to cover
- Statutory Commission appointed November 1927 with no Indian member; all-party boycott, Lala Lajpat Rai's death after Lahore lathi charge 1928
- All Parties Conference, Nehru Report August 1928: dominion status, joint electorates with reservation, fundamental rights, linguistic provinces; Calcutta 1928 one-year ultimatum
- League's response: fourteen points on federation, separate electorates, one-third at centre, Sindh separation
- Irwin's Deepavali declaration 31 October 1929 and the Delhi Manifesto's conditions
- 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
- Gandhi's eleven demands of January 1930 including salt tax, 50 percent land revenue cut, prohibition, rupee ratio
Where to study
A Brief History of Modern India · Rajiv Ahir (Spectrum)
- ch. 18 Simon Commission and the Nehru Report
- ch. 19 Civil Disobedience Movement and Round Table Conferences
Themes in Indian History Part III, Class XII, Theme 11 Mahatma Gandhi and the Nationalist Movement: Civil Disobedience and Beyond
- Theme 11 Mahatma Gandhi and the Nationalist Movement, pp. 1-30 (printed 286-315)
- Theme 11 Mahatma Gandhi and the Nationalist Movement, 3. The Salt Satyagraha, p. 10 (printed 295)
- Theme 11 Mahatma Gandhi and the Nationalist Movement, 3. The Salt Satyagraha, pp. 10-11 (printed 295-296)
Tamil Nadu State Board Class XII History
- ch. 5 Period of Radicalism in Anti-imperialist Struggles
Our Pasts III, Class VIII, Chapter 8: The Making of the National Movement: 1870s-1947
- ch. 8 The Making of the National Movement: 1870s-1947, pp. 1-20 (printed 93-112)
- ch. 8 The Making of the National Movement: 1870s-1947, Fig. 10, Demonstrators oppose the Simon Commission, p. 12 (printed 104)
- ch. 8 The Making of the National Movement: 1870s-1947, The happenings of 1922-1929, p. 12 (printed 104)
India’s Struggle for Independence, 1857–1947 · Bipan Chandra and others
- ch. 21 The Gathering Storm 1927-1929, pp. 260-269
- ch. 32 Communalism: The Liberal Phase, pp. 414-427
- ch. 22 Civil Disobedience 1930-1932, pp. 270-283