Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

History

Chapter

Modern India: Mahatma Gandhi and the Nationalist movement

Question:

Which of the following is NOT true in the context of 2nd World War?

Options:

Both Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru were strongly critical of Hitler and the Nazis.

Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru promised Congress support to the war effort if the British, in return, promised to grant India independence once hostilities ended.

At this time Britain had an all-party government, whose Labour members were sympathetic to Indian aspirations.

None of the above

Correct Answer:

None of the above

Explanation:

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.