Consider the following statements about Gandhiji and choose the correct statements.
(A) Gandhiji represented the Indian National Congress at the second Round Table Conference.
(B) Quit India Movement was Gandhi’s third major movement against British rule.
(C) Quit India Movement has been described by many scholars as Gandhiji’s “finest hour”.
(D) Gandhiji published his collection of letters as ‘A Bunch of Old Letters’.
(E) The Time Magazine compared Gandhiji’s martyrdom to that of Abraham Lincoln.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → (A), (B), (E) Only
(A) Gandhiji represented the Indian National Congress at the second Round Table Conference. Correct. At the second Round Table Conference, held in London in the latter part of 1931, Gandhiji represented the Congress.
(B) Quit India Movement was Gandhi’s third major movement against British rule. Correct. After the failure of the Cripps Mission, Gandhiji decided to launch his third major movement against British rule, the “Quit India” campaign of August 1942.
(C) Quit India Movement has been described by many scholars as Gandhiji’s “finest hour”. Incorrect. Many scholars have written of the months after Independence as Gandhiji’s “finest hour”, when he worked to bring peace to riot-torn Bengal and Delhi – not of the Quit India Movement.
(D) Gandhiji published his collection of letters as ‘A Bunch of Old Letters’. Incorrect. It was Nehru who edited a collection of letters written to him during the national movement and published A Bunch of Old Letters. Gandhiji published letters that others wrote to him in his journal, Harijan.
(E) The Time Magazine compared Gandhiji’s martyrdom to that of Abraham Lincoln. Correct. Time magazine, which had once mocked Gandhiji, now compared his martyrdom to that of Abraham Lincoln.
NCERT (2026-27): “3.2 Dialogues … A second Round Table Conference was held in London in the latter part of 1931. Here, Gandhiji represented the Congress.… 4. Quit India … After the failure of the Cripps Mission, Mahatma Gandhi decided to launch his third major movement against British rule. This was the ‘Quit India’ campaign, which began in August 1942.… 5. The Last Heroic Days … Many scholars have written of the months after Independence as being Gandhiji’s ‘finest hour’. After working to bring peace to Bengal, Gandhiji now shifted to Delhi, from where he hoped to move on to the riot-torn districts of Punjab.… 6.1 Public voice and private scripts … Mahatma Gandhi regularly published in his journal, Harijan, letters that others wrote to him. Nehru edited a collection of letters written to him during the national movement and published A Bunch of Old Letters.… 5. The Last Heroic Days … Time magazine, which had once mocked Gandhiji’s physical size and seemingly non-rational ideas, now compared his martyrdom to that of Abraham Lincoln: it was a bigoted American who had killed Lincoln for believing that human beings were equal regardless of their race or skin colour; and it was a bigoted Hindu who had killed Gandhiji for believing that friendship was possible, indeed necessary, between Indians of different faiths.…” |