Target Exam

CUET

Subject

History

Chapter

Modern India: Mahatma Gandhi and the Nationalist movement

Question:

Mahatma Gandhi was against separate electorates for the Depressed Classes because 

Options:

Depressed class people were against Mahatma Gandhi

Gandhi called them Harijan

Gandhi and Ambedkar proposed two different political ideologies

According to Gandhi, separate electorates to the "Untouchables" would ensure their bondage

Correct Answer:

According to Gandhi, separate electorates to the "Untouchables" would ensure their bondage

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option (4) → According to Gandhi, separate electorates to the "Untouchables" would ensure their bondage


At the Round Table Conference Mahatma Gandhi stated his arguments against separate electorates for the Depressed Classes:

Separate electorates to the “Untouchables” will ensure them bondage in perpetuity … Do you want the “Untouchables” to remain “Untouchables” for ever? Well, the separate electorates would perpetuate the stigma. What is needed is destruction of “Untouchability”, and when you have done it, the bar sinister, which has been imposed by an insolent “superior” class upon an “inferior” class will be destroyed. When you have destroyed the bar sinister to whom will you give the separate electorate.