[Mission 2022] QUIZ – 2021: INSIGHTS STATIC , 31 August 2021 – History

Solution: d)

• The British policy of ‘Divide and Rule’ found another expression in the announcement of the Communal Award in 1932.
• The Award allotted to each minority a number of seats in the legislatures to be elected on the basis of a separate electorate that is Muslims would be elected only by Muslims and Sikhs only by Sikhs, and so on.
• Muslims, Sikhs and Christians had already been treated as minorities. The Award declared the Depressed Classes (Scheduled Castes of today) also to be a minority community entitled to separate electorate and thus separated them from the rest of the Hindus.
• The Congress was opposed to a separate electorate for Muslims, Sikhs and ‘Christians as it encouraged the communal notion that they formed separate groups or communities having interests different from the general body of Indians.

Solution: a)

The Poona Pact was an agreement between Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. Ambedkar on behalf of depressed classes and upper caste Hindu leaders on the reservation of electoral seats for the depressed classes in the legislature of British India government in 1930. It was made on 24 September 1932 at Yerwada Central Jail in Poona. It was signed by Ambedkar on behalf of the depressed classes and by Madan Mohan Malviya on behalf of the upper caste Hindus and Gandhiji as a means to end the fast that Gandhi was undertaking in jail as a protest against the decision made by British prime minister Ramsay MacDonald to give separate electorates to depressed classes for the election of members of provincial legislative assemblies in British India.

Solution: c)

Salient Features of the Government of India Act 1935 were as follows:

• Abolition of provincial dyarchy and introduction of dyarchy at centre.
• Abolition of Indian Council and introduction of an advisory body in its place.
• Provision for an All India Federation with British India territories and princely states.
• Elaborate safeguards and protective instruments for minorities.
• Supremacy of British Parliament.
• Increase in size of legislatures, extension of franchise, division of subjects into three lists and retention of communal electorate.
• Separation of Burma from India.

Solution: a)

For the 1939 elections of the President of Congress, Subhash announced his candidature knowing that he would be opposed. By this time, Nehru was on a long holiday in Europe. When he returned in 1938, Gandhiji suggested him to announce his name as a candidate. But he declined and suggested the name of Maulana Azad. But Maulana Azad withdrew his name and then new name came up was of Dr. Pattabhi Sitaramayya, an Andhra leader. But Subhash was not sure of his win. The result was declared on January 29, 1939 and Subhash secured 1580 Votes. Sitaramayya got 1377 votes, thus Subhash winning by a narrow but clear margin.

Solution: d)

The All India Forward Bloc (abbr. AIFB) is a left-wing nationalist political party in India. It emerged as a faction within the Indian National Congress in 1939, led by Subhas Chandra Bose. The party subscribes to Left-wing nationalism; Socialism; Anti-Imperialism; and Marxism.

The party re-established as an independent political party after the independence of India.