Which of the following statements are correct?
(A) In the freedom struggle, nationalists understood the need to respect India's diversity.
(B) Minority and cultural rights marked many deliberations of the Muslim League.
(C) 'Unity in diversity' captured the plural nature of Indian society.
(D) Minority and cultural rights find final expression in the Indian Constitution.
(E) Imposing Sinhalese as a national language was a key issue behind Bangladesh's formation.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → A, C and D only
(A) In the freedom struggle, nationalists understood the need to respect India's diversity. — Correct. During the long struggle against British colonialism, Indian nationalists saw the urgent need to recognise and respect India's diversity.
(B) Minority and cultural rights marked many deliberations of the Muslim League. — Incorrect. Discussions on minority and cultural rights marked many deliberations of the Indian National Congress. The Muslim League is the wrong body here.
(C) 'Unity in diversity' captured the plural nature of Indian society. — Correct. The phrase unity in diversity became a short way to describe the plural and diverse nature of Indian society.
(D) Minority and cultural rights find final expression in the Indian Constitution. — Correct. These discussions on minority and cultural rights found their final expression in the Indian Constitution.
(E) Imposing Sinhalese as a national language was a key issue behind Bangladesh's formation. — Incorrect. The imposition of Sinhalese as a national language lay behind the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka. Bangladesh was formed partly because the Pakistani state would not recognise the cultural and linguistic rights of its people.
NCERT (2026-27): “Minority Rights and Nation Building … “… One of key issues that led to the formation of Bangladesh was the unwillingness of the Pakistani state to recognise the cultural and linguistic rights of the people of Bangladesh. One of the many contentious issues that formed the backdrop of the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka was the imposition of Sinhalese as a national language. …” |