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India · 1927Simon Commission announced; Madras Congress vows boycott and complete independence

The all-British Simon Commission, announced in November 1927, provoked widespread Indian protest. At Madras in December, the Congress under M.A. Ansari resolved to boycott it and adopted a resolution on complete independence, while the Kakori revolutionaries were executed.

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Key figures

Lord Irwin — Viceroy of India (1926–1931), during whose tenure the Simon Commission was announced.Lord Birkenhead — Secretary of State for India associated with the appointment of the Simon Commission.M.A. Ansari — President of the Indian National Congress at the Madras session, 1927.Jawaharlal Nehru — associated with the Madras complete-independence resolution and represented Indian nationalism at BruB.R. Ambedkar — led the Mahad Satyagraha for Dalit civic rights and the burning of the Manusmriti.Ram Prasad Bismil and Ashfaqulla Khan — HRA revolutionaries hanged on 19 December 1927 in the Kakori case.

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