Match List-I with List-II on Gandhiji's last months.List-IList-II(A)…

Match List-I with List-II on Gandhiji's last months.

List-I	List-II
(A) Refugees in Delhi	(I) Compared his martyrdom to Abraham Lincoln's
(B) Nathuram Godse	(II) Wrote of his concern for the minority in Pakistan
(C) D.G. Tendulkar	(III) Disrupted his meetings over readings from the Koran
(D) Time magazine	(IV) Shot him dead at a prayer meeting

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Answer & explanation

Correct answer: option 4

The correct answer is Option (4) → A-III, B-IV, C-II, D-I

List-I	List-II	Reason
(A) (A) Refugees in Delhi	(III) (III) Disrupted his meetings over readings from the Koran	When Gandhiji moved to Delhi, refugees <strong>disrupted his meetings</strong>. They objected to readings from the Koran and asked why he did not speak of Hindus and Sikhs in Pakistan.
(B) (B) Nathuram Godse	(IV) (IV) Shot him dead at a prayer meeting	Nathuram Godse was the young man who <strong>shot Gandhiji dead</strong> at his daily prayer meeting. He surrendered afterwards.
(C) (C) D.G. Tendulkar	(II) (II) Wrote of his concern for the minority in Pakistan	His biographer D.G. Tendulkar wrote that Gandhiji was <strong>equally concerned with the minority in Pakistan</strong>. He could not go there without justice for the Muslims in Delhi.
(D) (D) Time magazine	(I) (I) Compared his martyrdom to Abraham Lincoln's	Time magazine had once mocked Gandhiji. After his death it <strong>compared his martyrdom to Lincoln's</strong>, as both men were killed by bigots.

NCERT (2026-27): “5. The Last Heroic Days …
Many scholars have written of the months after Independence as being Gandhiji’s “finest hour”. After working to bring peace to Bengal, Gandhiji now shifted to Delhi, from where he hoped to move on to the riot-torn districts of Punjab. While in the capital, his meetings were disrupted by refugees who objected to readings from the Koran, or shouted slogans asking why he did not speak of the sufferings of those Hindus and Sikhs still living in Pakistan. In fact, as D.G. Tendulkar writes, Gandhiji “was equally concerned with the sufferings of the minority community in Pakistan. He would have liked to be able to go to their succour. But with what face could he now go there, when he could not guarantee full redress to the Muslims in Delhi?” …”

“Other Indians were less forgiving. At his daily prayer meeting on the evening of 30 January, Gandhiji was shot dead by a young man. The assassin, who surrendered afterwards, was Nathuram Godse.”

“Gandhiji’s death led to an extraordinary outpouring of grief, with rich tributes being paid to him from across the political spectrum in India, and moving appreciations coming from such international figures as George Orwell and Albert Einstein. Time magazine, which had once mocked Gandhiji’s physical size and seemingly non-rational ideas, now compared his martyrdom to that of Abraham Lincoln: it was a bigoted American who had killed Lincoln for believing that human beings were equal regardless of their race or skin colour; and it was a bigoted Hindu who had killed Gandhiji for believing that friendship was possible, indeed necessary, between Indians of different faiths. …”