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India · 1928'Simon Go Back': the boycott, the Nehru Report and the Bardoli Satyagraha

India boycotted the all-white Simon Commission with cries of 'Simon Go Back', and a Lahore lathi-charge fatally injured Lala Lajpat Rai. Indians answered Lord Birkenhead's challenge with the Nehru Report, while Patel's Bardoli Satyagraha and the demand for complete independence recharged the national movement.

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Key figures

Lala Lajpat Rai — 'Punjab Kesari'; led the Lahore anti-Simon protest and died on 17 November 1928 after the lathi-chargeMotilal Nehru — Congress President at Calcutta in 1928 and chair of the committee that produced the Nehru Report.Vallabhbhai Patel — led the Bardoli Satyagraha and earned the title 'Sardar'.Bhagat Singh — HSRA revolutionary who, with Rajguru, shot J.P. Saunders at Lahore to avenge Lala Lajpat Rai's death.C.V. Raman — discovered the Raman Effect in 1928 and won the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics.Jawaharlal Nehru and Subhas Chandra Bose — pressed for complete independence through the Independence for India League.

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