Identify the year of the Royal Indian Navy Mutiny in Bombay?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → 1946
The ratings of the Royal Indian Navy rose in Bombay and other cities in the spring of 1946, an upsurge that evoked much popular sympathy.
Note: A same/similar question was asked in CUET (UG) in the papers below.
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NCERT (2026-27): “1. A Tumultuous Time … Fresh in popular memory were the Quit India struggle of 1942 – perhaps the most widespread popular movement against the British Raj – as well as the bid by Subhas Chandra Bose to win freedom through armed struggle with foreign aid. An even more recent upsurge had also evoked much popular sympathy – this was the rising of the ratings of the Royal Indian Navy in Bombay and other cities in the spring of 1946. Through the late 1940s there were periodic, if scattered, mass protests of workers and peasants in different parts of the country. One striking feature of these popular upsurges was the degree of Hindu-Muslim unity they manifested.…” |