Question

Name the place where the Indian National Congress session was held in 1927.

Hint:

Think of the year the Simon Commission was appointed and the Congress session that resolved to boycott it. The city is in the south.

Answer 1

Concept:

• The Indian National Congress held an annual session in a different city each year, and the city is often remembered by the resolution passed there.
• The session of 1927 is remembered for the stand taken against the Simon Commission.

Step 1: Recall the year and the city.
The annual session of the Indian National Congress in 1927 was held at Madras, the city now called Chennai.

Step 2: Recall what was decided there.
The Simon Commission had been appointed in Britain to look into the working of the constitutional system in India, and it had not a single Indian member. At the Madras session the Congress resolved to boycott the Commission at every stage.

Step 3: Place the session in the larger story.
The Madras session of 1927 led on to the Lahore session of December 1929, where the demand for Purna Swaraj, or complete independence, was formalised.

Final Answer: The Indian National Congress session of 1927 was held at Madras, now known as Chennai.