The activities of the Commission of J. Simon and the deepening crisis of British rule in India in the second half of the 1920s
The article examines some aspects of the transformation of British policy in India, associated with the growing crisis of the colonial administration system in the interwar decades. The results of the first elections held as part of the Montague-Chelmsford reform, as well as the subsequent experience of the representative structures elected on their basis reflected the internally contradictory nature of the transformations carried out by the British authorities. The expansion of the system of self-government and the introduction of elements of parliamentarism in British India during this period was combined with the use of repressive measures, including the adoption of the so-called Rowlett legislation. Despite the internal inconsistency, the actions of Great Britain during this period, being a reaction to the difficulties that were growing within the imperial mechanism, reflected the formation of an important vector for the further evolution of its colonial policy.