Arrange the following sentences in ascending order as per their occurrence in history.
(A) All India Trade Union Congress was formed in Bombay.
(B) Trade Unions Act was passed.
(C) The First Trade Union was established in Madras.
(D) Bombay Textile workers strike.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → (C), (A), (B), (D)
(C) The First Trade Union was established in Madras. — April 1918, by B.P. Wadia, a social worker and member of the Theosophical Society.
(A) All India Trade Union Congress was formed in Bombay. — 1920.
(B) Trade Unions Act was passed. — 1926. The formation of the AITUC made the colonial government more cautious, and the Act provided for the registration of trade unions.
(D) Bombay Textile workers strike. — 1982, led by the trade union leader Dr. Datta Samant; it lasted nearly two years.
Note: The lines on the colonial government’s concessions to labour, including the Trade Unions Act of 1926, in the section on the workers’ movement of the chapter ‘Social Movements’, were there in the pre-rationalised NCERT, which NTA followed in 2023. This portion has been deleted from the NCERT book (2025-26), though the chapter and its account of the first trade union and the AITUC are still there.
NCERT (2025-26): “Workers’ Movements … The first trade union was established in April 1918 in Madras by B.P. Wadia, a social worker and member of the Theosophical Society. During the same year, Mahatma Gandhi founded the Textile Labour Association (TLA). In 1920, the All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) was formed in Bombay.…” “5.7 Strikes and unions … Let us look at one famous strike, the Bombay Textile strike of 1982, which was led by the trade union leader, Dr. Datta Samant, and affected nearly a quarter of a million workers and their families. The strike lasted nearly two years.…” NCERT (Pre-rationalised): “…The formation of the AITUC made the colonial government more cautious in dealing with labour. It attempted to grant workers some concessions in order to contain unrest. In 1922 the government passed the fourth Factories Act which reduced the working day to 10 hours. And in 1926, the Trade Unions Act was passed, which provided for registration of trade unions and proposed some regulations. By the mid 1920s, the AITUC had nearly 200 unions affiliated to it and its membership stood at around 250,000.” |