Question 10 - Past Year Questions - 3 Marks - Chapter 2 Class 10 History - Nationalism in India - History

This question was asked in [Board Term–II, foreign Set-I, II, III, 2016]

Simon Commission was greeted with slogan ‘Go back Simon’ at arrival in India. Support this reaction of Indians with arguments.

Answer:

Points to Remember

Simon Commission was greeted with slogan ‘Go back Simon’ at arrival in India because

• Statutory Commission under Sir John Simon.
• Response to the nationalist movement.
• Functioning of the constitutional system.
• Not a single Indian member.
• Simon Commission arrived in India in 1928.
• Greeted with the slogan ‘Go back Simon’.
• Congress and Muslim League participated in the demonstrations.

We use any 3 points and elaborate on them

Answer to be written in the exam

1. The new Tory government in Britain constituted a Statutory Commission under Sir John Simon. The Commission was set up in response to the nationalist movement.
2. The problem was that the commission did not have a single Indian member . All the members were British.
3. When the Simon Commission arrived in India in 1928 , it was greeted with the slogan ‘Go back Simon’.