Arrange the following statements as they have happened chronologically in the process of nation- building in India.
(A) Bangladesh Liberation War
(B) Official Secrets Act
(C) Right to Information Act
(D) States Reorganisation Commission
(E) Constitution of India adopted
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → (B), (E), (D), (A), (C)
(B) Official Secrets Act — 1923, under colonial rule; it restricted the disclosure of government information.
(E) Constitution of India adopted — 1949, in force from 26 January 1950.
(D) States Reorganisation Commission — its report was implemented on 1 November 1956; soon after the adoption of the Constitution, the provinces of the colonial era were reorganised into linguistic States.
(A) Bangladesh Liberation War — 1971, which led to the division of Pakistan and the formation of Bangladesh.
(C) Right to Information Act — passed by Parliament on 15 June 2005; it overrides the Official Secrets Act of 1923.
NCERT (2025-26): “6.2 Regionalism in the Indian Context … After Independence, initially the Indian state continued with the BritishIndian arrangement dividing India into large provinces, also called ‘presidencies’. (Madras, Bombay, and Calcutta were the three major presidencies; incidentally, all three cities after which the presidencies were named have changed their names recently). These were large multi-ethnic and multilingual provincial states constituting the major political-administrative units of a semi-federal state called the Union of India. Soon after the adoption of the Constitution, all these units of the colonial era had to be reorganised into ethno-linguistic States within the Indian union in response to strong popular agitations.…”
Box 6.3, Linguistic States Helped Strengthen Indian Unity
Box 6.9, Forcing the State to Respond to the People: The Right to Information Act |
