Amidst all the turmoil of the partition one man's valiant efforts to restore communal harmony bore fruit. Who is being discussed in these lines? Choose the correct option.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → Mahatma Gandhi
In the violence of Partition, the 77-year-old Gandhiji went from the villages of Noakhali to Bihar and to the riot-torn slums of Calcutta and Delhi to stop Hindus and Muslims from killing each other, and kept appealing to all communities to live in peace.
Note: This question is taken from the chapter ‘Understanding Partition’ which was there in the pre-rationalised NCERT and has been deleted from subsequent editions of NCERT, including the NCERT book (2026-27).
NCERT (Pre-rationalised): “4.1 The one-man army … Amidst all this turmoil, one man’s valiant efforts at restoring communal harmony bore fruit. The 77-year-old Gandhiji decided to stake his all in a bid to vindicate his lifelong principle of non-violence, and his conviction that people’s hearts could be changed. He moved from the villages of Noakhali in East Bengal (present-day Bangladesh) to the villages of Bihar and then to the riot-torn slums of Calcutta and Delhi, in a heroic effort to stop Hindus and Muslims kill each other, careful everywhere to reassure the minority community.…” |