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Q1Consider the following statements about the Quit India Movement of 1942: 1. Independent local governments arose in places such as Satara in Maharashtra, Ballia in Uttar Pradesh and Tamluk in West Bengal. 2. Nana Patil organised the Tamralipta Jatiya Sarkar at Tamluk during this movement. 3. Matangini Hazra led a long procession in Tamluk, advancing with the national flag, and was killed by colonial police bullets. 4. Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee was one of the main architects of the Tamralipta Jatiya Sarkar. Which of the statements given above are correct?
Statement 2 is false: Nana Patil is associated with the Satara parallel government, not with organising Tamralipta Jatiya Sarkar at Tamluk. Statement 1 is true: Quit India saw independent local governments at Satara, Ballia and Tamluk. Statement 3 is true: Matangini Hazra led a Tamluk procession with the national flag and was shot dead. Statement 4 is true: Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee was one of the main architects of Tamralipta Jatiya Sarkar. Hence only 1, 3 and 4 stand.
Q2Consider the following pairs: 1. Partition of Bengal effected on 16 October 1905 — Viceroyalty of Lord Curzon 2. New province of Eastern Bengal and Assam — capital at Dhaka 3. Annulment of the 1905 Partition announced at the Delhi Durbar of 1911 — Viceroyalty of Lord Minto Which of the pairs given above is/are correctly matched?
Pair 1 is correct: the Partition was effected on 16 October 1905 during Lord Curzon’s viceroyalty (1899–1905). Pair 2 is correct: Eastern Bengal and Assam was constituted with its capital at Dhaka. Pair 3 is incorrect: Lord Minto succeeded Curzon (1905–1910) and had left office before the Delhi Durbar of December 1911, when King George V announced the revocation under Lord Hardinge. Attributing the annulment announcement to Minto is the adjacent-tenure trap. Hence only 1 and 2 are correctly matched.
Q3Consider the following statements: 1. The Government of India Act 1919 introduced dyarchy in the provinces by dividing provincial subjects into reserved and transferred lists. 2. The Government of India Act 1935 abolished provincial dyarchy and placed provincial portfolios with ministers enjoying the support of the provincial legislatures. 3. Under the Government of India Act 1935, defence and foreign affairs at the Centre were transferred to Indian ministers responsible to the federal legislature. Which of the statements given above are correct?
Statement 1 is correct: the 1919 Act created provincial dyarchy by splitting reserved subjects (Governor and executive council) from transferred subjects (ministers answerable to the legislature). Statement 2 is correct: the 1935 Act abolished that provincial dyarchy and vested provincial portfolios in ministers supported by the provincial legislatures (provincial autonomy). Statement 3 is false: at the Centre, defence and foreign affairs remained reserved to the Governor-General and were not handed to Indian ministers responsible to the federal legislature. Hence only 1 and 2 stand.
Q4Consider the following statements regarding the Ilbert Bill: 1. It was introduced in the Imperial Legislative Council in 1883 during the viceroyalty of Lord Ripon. 2. It proposed that qualified Indian judges could try cases involving Europeans. 3. Strong European opposition forced the measure into a severely compromised form when finally enacted. 4. It was drafted as a companion measure to Lord Lytton’s Vernacular Press Act and passed in the same year. Which of the statements given above are correct?
Statements 1–3 are correct: the Ilbert Bill entered the Imperial Legislative Council on 9 February 1883 under Lord Ripon, sought to let senior Indian judges try Europeans, and after fierce European opposition was enacted only in a severely compromised form (1884). Statement 4 is false: the Vernacular Press Act belonged to Lytton’s tenure (1878), not to Ripon’s Ilbert episode, and the two were not same-year companion measures. Eliminating that Act/viceroy mash-up leaves 1, 2 and 3 only — D.
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