Which of the following pairs of a member of the Constituent Assembly and the view expressed is correctly matched?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → Jaipal Singh - The history of his people was one of continuous exploitation and dispossession by the non-aboriginals
Option (1) J. Nagappa - The suffering of the Depressed Castes was due to their numerical insignificance — Incorrect. Nagappa said the suffering came from systematic marginalisation, since the Depressed Castes formed 20 to 25 per cent of the population.
Option (2) Dakshayani Velayudhan - Seventy million Harijans were to be considered as a minority — Incorrect. Velayudhan refused to believe that seventy million Harijans were to be considered a minority. She wanted their social disabilities removed.
Option (3) Jaipal Singh - The history of his people was one of continuous exploitation and dispossession by the non-aboriginals — Correct. Speaking as an Adibasi, Jaipal Singh described his people's past as continuous exploitation and dispossession by the non-aboriginals, broken by rebellions.
Option (4) Ambedkar - Kept demanding separate electorates even after the Partition violence — Incorrect. After the Partition violence, Ambedkar no longer argued for separate electorates.
NCERT (2026-27): “3.2 “We will need much more than this Resolution” … “... as an Adibasi, I am not expected to understand the legal intricacies of the Resolution. But my common sense tells me that every one of us should march in that road to freedom and fight together. Sir, if there is any group of Indian people that has been shabbily treated it is my people. They have been disgracefully treated, neglected for the last 6,000 years. … The whole history of my people is one of continuous exploitation and dispossession by the non-aboriginals of India punctuated by rebellions and disorder, and yet I take Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru at his word. I take you all at your word that now we are going to start a new chapter, a new chapter of independent India where there is equality of opportunity, where no one would be neglected.” |