Modern History Prelims Question

Although constitutional reforms were due only in 1929, the Conservative government, then in power in Britain, feared defeat by the Labour Party and thus, did not want to leave the question of the future of Britain’s most priced colony in “irresponsible Labour hands”.
Also by the mid-1920s, the failure of the 1919 Act to create a stable imperial power had led to several parliamentary reports and inquiries.
The Lee Commission went into the Raj’s failure to recruit enough British officers;
The Mudiman Commission looked into the deadlock within the diarchic dispensation; and
The Linlithgow Commission inquired into the crisis of Indian agriculture.
So, the British government thought it necessary to go more fully into the working of the 1919 Act. The Conservative Secretary of State for India, Lord Birkenhead, who had constantly talked of the inability of the Indians to formulate a concrete scheme of constitutional reforms which had the support of wide sections of Indian political opinion, was responsible for the appointment of the Simon Commission.

Although constitutional reforms were due only in 1929, the Conservative government, then in power in Britain, feared defeat by the Labour Party and thus, did not want to leave the question of the future of Britain’s most priced colony in “irresponsible Labour hands”.
Also by the mid-1920s, the failure of the 1919 Act to create a stable imperial power had led to several parliamentary reports and inquiries.
The Lee Commission went into the Raj’s failure to recruit enough British officers;
The Mudiman Commission looked into the deadlock within the diarchic dispensation; and
The Linlithgow Commission inquired into the crisis of Indian agriculture.
So, the British government thought it necessary to go more fully into the working of the 1919 Act. The Conservative Secretary of State for India, Lord Birkenhead, who had constantly talked of the inability of the Indians to formulate a concrete scheme of constitutional reforms which had the support of wide sections of Indian political opinion, was responsible for the appointment of the Simon Commission.

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