Question

With reference to Rowlatt Satyagraha, which of the following statements is/are correct?

Select the correct answer using the code given below.

• A.
  1 only
• B.
  1 and 2 only
• C.
  2 and 3 only
• D.
  1, 2 and 3

Answer 1

The correct option is B

1 and 2 only
Simon Commission arrived in British India in 1928 to study constitutional reform in Britain's largest and most important possession. The Rowlatt Committee was a Sedition Committee appointed in 1917 by the British Indian Government with Sidney Rowlatt, an English judge, as its president. The purpose of the Rowlatt Committee was to evaluate political terrorism in India. On the recommendations of the committee, the Rowlatt Act, an extension of the Defence of India Act 1915, was enforced.