List of Committees and Commissions in India before Independence

The below list consists of Committees and Commissions, which were constituted by the British during colonial period for administrative reforms, judicial reforms and social reforms.

Name of Committees/ Commissions	Year	Governor-General/Viceroy	Subjects of the Committees/ Commissions
Charles Wood Despatch	1854	Lord Dalhousie	Education
Hunter Commission	1882	Lord Ripon	Education
Raleigh Commission	1902	Lord Curzon	Education (Indian Universities Act)
Sadler Commission	1917	Lord Chelmsford	Education
Hartog Commission	1929	Lord Irwin	Education
Sargent Plan	1944	Lord Wavell	Education
Campbell Commission	1866	Sir John Lawrence	Famine
Stratchy Commission	1880	Lord Lytton	Famine
Lyall Commission	1886	Lord d Elgin-II	Famine
MacDonnell Commission	1900	Lord Curzon	Famine
Mansfield Commission	1886	Lord Dufferin	Currency
Fowler Commission	1898	Lord Elgin-II	Currency
Hilton Young Commission	1926	Lord Linlithgow	Currency
Fraser Commission	1902	Lord Curzon	Agriculture
Scott-Moncrieff Commission	1901	Lord Curzon	Irrigation
Babington Smith Commission	1919	Lord Chelmsford	Currency
Hunter Committee Report	1919	Lord Chelmsford	Punjab Disturbances
Muddiman Committee	1924	Lord Reading	To examine the working of Diarchy of the Montague-Chelmsford reforms
Butler Commission	1927	Lord Irwin	Indian States
Whitley Commission	1929	Lord Irwin	Labour
Simon Commission		Lord Irwin	To investigate the progress of the governance scheme and suggest new steps for reform
Sapru Commission	1935	Lord Linlithgow	Unemployment
Chatfield Commission	1939	Lord Linlithgow	Army
FIoud Commission	1940	Lord Linlithgow	Tenancy in Bengal