Put the following events in the correct sequence:
(A) 73rd Amendment.
(B) Karachi Resolution of INC.
(C) Gandhiji wrote the article 'The Only Way' in Harijan.
(D) Motilal Nehru and 8 other Congress leaders drafted a constitution.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → (D), (B), (C), (A)
(D) Motilal Nehru and 8 other Congress leaders drafted a constitution — 1928.
(B) Karachi Resolution of INC — 1931.
(C) Gandhiji wrote the article ‘The Only Way’ in Harijan — 1939.
(A) 73rd Amendment — 1992.
Note: The chapter ‘The Story of Indian Democracy’ of the pre-rationalised NCERT, which NTA followed in 2023, has been renamed ‘The Constitution and Social Change’ in the NCERT book (2025-26). Its account of how a vision of Indian democracy emerged before independence — the constitution drafted by Motilal Nehru and eight other Congress leaders in 1928 and Gandhiji’s article ‘The Only Way’ (1939) — was there in the pre-rationalised NCERT and has been deleted from the NCERT book (2025-26). The Karachi Session of 1931 is still there in the chapter ‘Patterns of Social Inequality and Exclusion’, and the 73rd Amendment of 1992 in the renamed chapter.
NCERT (2025-26): “…For instance, the Directive Principle on Village Panchayats was moved as an amendment in the Constituent Assembly by K. Santhanam. After forty odd years, it became a Constitutional imperative after the 73rd Amendment in 1992.…” “5.3 Struggle for women’s equality and rights … In 1931, the Karachi Session of the Indian National Congress issued a declaration on the Fundamental Rights of Citizenship in India whereby it committed itself to women’s equality.…” NCERT (Pre-rationalised): “3.1 The Indian Constitution … As far back as in 1928, Motilal Nehru and eight other Congress leaders drafted a constitution for India. In 1931, the resolution at the Karachi session of the Indian National Congress dwelt on how independent India’s constitution should look like.… In 1939, Gandhiji wrote an article in the ‘Harijan’ called ‘The Only Way’ in which he said ‘… the Constituent Assembly alone can produce a constitution indigenous to the country and truly and fully representing the will of the people’ one based on ‘unadulterated adult franchise for both men and women’.…” |