Choose the incorrect statement, out of the given statements about the Lucknow Pact:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → Under the pact, the Khilafat movement was merged with the Non-cooperation movement.
Option (1) It provided a joint political platform for the Moderates, Extremists and the Muslim League — Correct statement. The pact provided a joint political platform for the Moderates, the Radicals (the group also called the Extremists) and the Muslim League.
Option (2) It was signed in December 1916 — Correct statement. The Lucknow Pact was an understanding of December 1916 between the Congress and the Muslim League.
Option (3) The Congress accepted separate electorates — Correct statement. By the pact the Congress accepted separate electorates.
Option (4) Under the pact, the Khilafat movement was merged with the Non-cooperation movement. — Incorrect statement. The pact said nothing about the Khilafat movement. Gandhiji joined hands with the Khilafat movement later, after the Rowlatt satyagraha of 1919, to broaden his campaign of non-cooperation.
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): “2. The Making and Unmaking of Non-cooperation … It was the Rowlatt satyagraha that made Gandhiji a truly national leader. Emboldened by its success, Gandhiji called for a campaign of ‘non-cooperation’ with British rule. Indians who wished colonialism to end were asked to stop attending schools, colleges and law courts, and not pay taxes. In sum, they were asked to adhere to a ‘renunciation of (all) voluntary association with the (British) Government’. If non-cooperation was effectively carried out, said Gandhiji, India would win swaraj within a year. To further broaden the struggle he had joined hands with the Khilafat Movement that sought to restore the Caliphate, a symbol of Pan-Islamism which had recently been abolished by the Turkish ruler Kemal Attaturk.”
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