Arrange the following events in order of their occurrence:-
(A) Hong Kong Influenza
(B) Spanish Flu
(C) Asian Influenza
(D) First Population Policy in India
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → (B), (D), (C), (A)
(B) Spanish Flu — 1918-19, the single biggest epidemic, which killed about 5% of India’s population.
(D) First Population Policy in India — 1952; India was perhaps the first country to announce such a policy.
(C) Asian Influenza — 1957.
(A) Hong Kong Influenza — 1968.
NCERT (2025-26): “…But the single biggest epidemic was the influenza epidemic of 1918-19, which killed as many as 170 lakh people, or about 5% of the total population of India at that time.…” “2.7 Population Policy in India … It is hardly surprising therefore that India has had an official population policy for more than a half century. In fact, India was perhaps the first country to explicitly announce such a policy in 1952.…”
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