Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

History

Chapter

Modern India: Framing the Constitution

Question:

Match the following leaders in List 1 with the description associated with them in List 2

List 1- Leader

List 2- Description

(a) Shrimati G. Durgabai

(i) Vice-President in the interim government.

(b) Jawaharlal Nehru

(ii) Declared that he wanted a strong and united Centre.

(c) B.R. Ambedkar

(iii) Carried on Hindi propaganda in the South.

Options:

(a)- i, (b) ii, (c) iii

(a)- i, (b) iii, (c) ii

(a)- iii, (b) ii, (c) i

(a)- iii, (b) i, (c) ii

Correct Answer:

(a)- iii, (b) i, (c) ii

Explanation:

Shrimati G. Durgabai along with many others had obeyed the call of Mahatma Gandhi and carried on Hindi propaganda in the south, braved resistance, started schools and conducted classes in Hindi.

On 2 September 1946, Congress formed Interim Government with Nehru as the Vice-President (of the executive council).

B.R. Ambedkar had declared that he wanted “a strong and united Centre (hear, hear) much stronger than the Centre we had created under the Government of India Act of 1935".