List of Committees and Commissions Appointed by British India Rule with their Focus Area in India before Independence

Modern Indian History has a major impact under the British India Rule so in this article we have listed the Committees/ Commissions of British India, which was formed for either administrative reforms, judicial reforms or social reforms.

List of Committees and Commissions in appointed India before Independence:-

Name of Committees/ Commissions	Year	Governor-General/Viceroy	Subjects of the Committees/ Commissions
Charles Wood Despatch	1854	Lord Dalhousie	Education
Campbell Commission	1866	Sir John Lawrence	Famine
Stratchy Commission	1880	Lord Lytton ,	Famine
Hunter Commission	1882	Lord Ripon	Education
Lyall Commission	1886	Lord d Elgin-II	Famine
Mansfield Commission	1886	Lord Dufferin	Currency
Fowler Commission	1898	Lord Elgin-II	Currency
MacDonnell Commission	1900	Lord Curzon	Famine
Raleigh Commission	1902	Lord Curzon	Education
Fraser Commission	1902	Lord Curzon	Agriculture
Sadler Commission	1917	Lord Chelmsford	Education
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
Simon Commission	1927	Lord Irwin	To investigate the progress of the governance scheme and suggest new steps for reform
Hartog Commission	1929	Lord Irwin	Education
Whitley Commission	1929	Lord Irwin	Labour
Sapru Commission	1935	Lord Linlithgow	Unemployment
Hilton young Commission	1939	Lord Linlithgow	Currency
Chatfield Commission	1939	Lord Linlithgow	Army
FIoud Commission	1940	Lord Linlithgow	Tenancy in Bengal
Sargent Plan	1944	Lord Wavell	Education