The Devlin Commission was a commission of inquiry set up in 1959 under the chairmanship of Mr. Justice Devlin, later Lord Devlin, after African opposition to the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, particularly its farming and rural conservation policies, and demands for progress towards majority rule promoted by the Nyasaland African Congress under its leader Dr Hastings Banda led to widespread disturbances in Nyasaland and some deaths.
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Schemes to prevent cutting down and burning trees and growing finger millet, and to restrict the numbers of cattle owned had begun in that region in 1938, but from 1947 they were increasingly enforced through fines.
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