Arrange the following events in chronological order:(A) Gandhiji repr…

Arrange the following events in chronological order:

(A) Gandhiji represented the Congress at the second Round Table Conference in London.
(B) Gandhiji was released from jail and held long meetings with the Viceroy.
(C) Civil disobedience was called off under the Gandhi-Irwin Pact.
(D) Gandhiji returned to India and resumed civil disobedience.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Answer & explanation

Correct answer: option 4

The correct answer is Option (4) → B, C, A, D

(B) Gandhiji was released from jail and held long meetings with the Viceroy. — First. Gandhiji came out of jail in January 1931 and met the Viceroy the following month.

(C) Civil disobedience was called off under the Gandhi-Irwin Pact. — Second. Those meetings led to the Gandhi-Irwin Pact, which called off civil disobedience and released prisoners.

(A) Gandhiji represented the Congress at the second Round Table Conference in London. — Third. The second Round Table Conference met in London in the latter part of 1931, with Gandhiji speaking for the Congress.

(D) Gandhiji returned to India and resumed civil disobedience. — Fourth. The London conference ended without result, so Gandhiji came back and resumed civil disobedience.

NCERT (2026-27): “3.2 Dialogues …
To that end, the British government convened a series of “Round Table Conferences” in London. The first meeting was held in November 1930, but without the pre-eminent political leader in India, thus rendering it an exercise in futility. Gandhiji was released from jail in January 1931 and the following month had several long meetings with the Viceroy. These culminated in what was called the “Gandhi-Irwin Pact’, by the terms of which civil disobedience would be called off, all prisoners released, and salt manufacture allowed along the coast. …”

“A second Round Table Conference was held in London in the latter part of 1931. Here, Gandhiji represented the Congress. However, his claims that his party represented all of India came under challenge from three parties: from the Muslim League, which claimed to stand for the interests of the Muslim minority; from the Princes, who claimed that the Congress had no stake in their territories; and from the brilliant lawyer and thinker B.R. Ambedkar, who argued that Gandhiji and the Congress did not really represent the lowest castes.”

“The Conference in London was inconclusive, so Gandhiji returned to India and resumed civil disobedience. …”