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It is considered one of the toughest exams in India which are taken by candidates willing to serve the nation. Modern History is one of the major topics covered in these exams. These Simon Commission delegates created ripple effects on the ground, strong reactions were witnessed from noted politicians like Jawaharlal Nehru, Gandhi , Jinnah, the Muslim League, and Indian National Congress.

They were not taken into confidence while formulating the report. Also Read :. In January , the Simon Commission left England. They arrived in Bombay on February 4, , and they were confronted with large numbers of protesters. A strike began and the crowd turned out to greet the Simon Commission with black flags. Similar protests also occurred in the various smaller cities of India.

One of them turned out to be infamous. In October , the Simon Commission arrived in Lahore where again it was confronted by thongs of protestors waving the black flags. It was led by the revolutionary Lala Lajpat Rai. He had moved the resolution against the Simon Commission in the Legislative Assembly of the Punjab city in the month of February Protests took a sudden violent change, leading the local police to began beating the public. Lala Lajpat Rai was also captured in the grip where he got critically injured and died a fortnight later.

Other than the many recommendations, they soon realized that the educated sector of India was not accepting of the changes completely so they suggested a few changes for the betterment of Indians as well.

In , the first provincial elections were held that made Congress Governments in several provinces. The commission finally published its two-volume report in May Here are some of the crucial features of this report:.

Also Read: Simon Commission in Hindi. While the Commission did go back, it was not before reinforcing the basic legal framework of British governance in India — carefully representative provincial governments under the suzerainty of the Viceroy, implementing laws that had been enacted by the British for India. While this is necessarily a gradual exercise, it has three fundamental elements. First, create a federal framework; second, repeal British laws which are outdated; third, set in forth a process to meaningfully Indianise four pillars of the legal system — the Civil Procedure Code, the Indian Penal Code, the Indian Evidence Act and the Indian Contract Act.

But a close look at the constitutional framework, particularly the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution that deals with power-sharing between Centre and States, will reveal that state governments, though popularly elected, are severely hamstrung. They can set up universities, but not decide what to teach at such universities. They provide law and order, but depend on central financial support to do so. They create hospitals, but are not able to regulate drugs to be used in these hospitals.

This is a direct legacy of the Government of India Act, , enacted pursuant to the Simon Commission recommendations, which created responsible government at provincial level but maintained ultimate control with New Delhi. The Constitution must become truly federal first, if the Centre and states are to meaningfully cooperate to serve the people.

Also read: The need to ensure justice without fear or favour. The starting point of such cooperation should be the repeal of outdated British laws. The law commission recommended colonial laws for repeal in Though several laws were repealed by Parliament in the last five years, a majority still remains on the statute book. The Police Incitement to Disaffection Act, , designed to curb nationalist activities, made it an offence to spread disaffection among the police.

Its continuance is a blot on our proud proclamations of freeing the country of the colonial yoke. On the other hand, the Bangalore Marriages Validating Act, , funnily enough, validated certain marriages that were mistakenly solemnised by a particular priest in Bangalore. Though now recommended for repeal, its perpetuation for over seven decades in independent India, while harmless, is a symbolic indication that while Parliament and state legislatures are sovereign in form, they need to start taking their sovereignty seriously in practice.

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Photo courtesy: Madhu Dandavate's biography of Yusuf Meherally. Parikh participated in the Quit India movement as a year-old. Meherally left along with the socialist leader Jayaprakash Narayan.