Match List-I (Event) with List-II (Time).List-IList-II(A) Gandhi and…

Match List-I (Event) with List-II (Time).

List-I	List-II
(A) Gandhi and Rajendra Prasad meet Viceroy Linlithgow	(I) March 1940
(B) Gandhi holds talks with Stafford Cripps	(II) October 1939
(C) Muslim League passes a resolution demanding autonomy for Muslim-majority areas	(III) 1940 and 1941
(D) Congress organises a series of individual satyagrahas	(IV) March 1942

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Answer & explanation

Correct answer: option 1

The correct answer is Option (1) → A-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III

List-I	List-II	Reason
(A) Gandhi and Rajendra Prasad meet Viceroy Linlithgow	(II) October 1939	Gandhi and Rajendra Prasad went to meet Lord Linlithgow on 13 October 1939 to discuss India's part in the war.
(B) Gandhi holds talks with Stafford Cripps	(IV) March 1942	Cripps came to India in the spring of 1942; Gandhi's talks with him took place in March 1942.
(C) Muslim League passes a resolution demanding autonomy for Muslim-majority areas	(I) March 1940	The Muslim League resolution demanding autonomy for Muslim-majority areas was passed in March 1940.
(D) Congress organises a series of individual satyagrahas	(III) 1940 and 1941	Through 1940 and 1941 the Congress held individual satyagrahas to press for a promise of freedom after the war.

NCERT (2026-27): “3.2 Dialogues …
The offer was refused. In protest, the Congress ministries resigned in October 1939. Through 1940 and 1941, the Congress organised a series of individual satyagrahas to pressure the rulers to promise freedom once the war had ended.”

“Meanwhile, in March 1940, the Muslim League passed a resolution demanding a measure of autonomy for the Muslim-majority areas of the subcontinent. The political landscape was now becoming complicated: it was no longer Indians versus the British; rather, it had become a threeway struggle between the Congress, the Muslim League, and the British. At this time Britain had an all-party government, whose Labour members were sympathetic to Indian aspirations, but whose Conservative Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, was a diehard imperialist who insisted that he had not been appointed the King’s First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire. In the spring of 1942, Churchill was persuaded to send one of his ministers, Sir Stafford Cripps, to India to try and forge a compromise with Gandhiji and the Congress. …”

“Fig. 11.10 Mahatma Gandhi and Rajendra Prasad on their way to a meeting with the Viceroy, Lord Linlithgow, 13 October 1939”

“Fig. 11.11 Mahatma Gandhi with Stafford Cripps, March 1942”