In 1928, the British Government "announced the appointment of the Indian Statutory Commission, better known as the Simon Commission after Sir John Simon, its chairman." The Simon Commission was given a mandate to reexamine and revise the constitutional rules by which India was governed. It had no Indian members, and its "non-Indian character offered an affront to almost all Indian parties. The Congress Party decided to boycott the Commission.... Meanwhile, the All Parties Conference convened by the Congress Party...appointed a Committee under Pandit Motilal Nehru to draft a Swaraj Constitution for India. The Nehru Committee worked from June to August 1928 and drafted a Constitution. This was the first Indian attempt at Constitution-making" (Dhananjay Keer, Dr. Ambedkar: Life and Mission; Bombay: Popular Prakashan, 1971 [1954], 114-15).
Annotation by: Pritchett