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 |
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