Arrange the following events in chronological order:
(A) Sir Stafford Cripps is sent to India to forge a compromise with the Congress
(B) A new Government of India Act promises some form of representative government
(C) The Congress ministries resign in protest
(D) The Congress wins a comprehensive victory in elections held on a restricted franchise
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → B, D, C, A
(B) A new Government of India Act promises some form of representative government — First. The Government of India Act of 1935 promised some form of representative government. It comes first.
(D) The Congress wins a comprehensive victory in elections held on a restricted franchise — Second. Two years later, in 1937, the Congress won the elections held on a restricted franchise and formed ministries in eight of 11 provinces.
(C) The Congress ministries resign in protest — Third. After the Second World War began, the Viceroy refused the Congress offer. In protest the Congress ministries resigned in October 1939.
(A) Sir Stafford Cripps is sent to India to forge a compromise with the Congress — Fourth. In the spring of 1942 Churchill sent Sir Stafford Cripps to India to seek a compromise. It is the last of the four.
NCERT (2026-27): “3.2 Dialogues … “The offer was refused. In protest, the Congress ministries resigned in October 1939. Through 1940 and 1941, the Congress organised a series of individual satyagrahas to pressure the rulers to promise freedom once the war had ended.” “Meanwhile, in March 1940, the Muslim League passed a resolution demanding a measure of autonomy for the Muslim-majority areas of the subcontinent. The political landscape was now becoming complicated: it was no longer Indians versus the British; rather, it had become a threeway struggle between the Congress, the Muslim League, and the British. At this time Britain had an all-party government, whose Labour members were sympathetic to Indian aspirations, but whose Conservative Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, was a diehard imperialist who insisted that he had not been appointed the King’s First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire. In the spring of 1942, Churchill was persuaded to send one of his ministers, Sir Stafford Cripps, to India to try and forge a compromise with Gandhiji and the Congress. …” |