Arrange the events in chronological order:

A) Muslims in East Bengal targeted Hindus which made Gandhiji travel there and persuade local Muslims to guarantee the safety of Hindus.
B) Gandhiji went to address a meeting of Sikhs at Gurdwara Sisganj.
C) Riots broke out in Calcutta on “Direct Action Day”.
D) Congress high command voted for dividing the Punjab into two halves.

Choose the correct answer from the given options:

C-A-D-B

The correct answer is Option 2 - C-A-D-B

The correct chronological order is:

C- 16 August 1946: Riots broke out in Calcutta on “Direct Action Day”.

A- In October 1946: Muslims in East Bengal targeted Hindus which made Gandhiji travel there and persuade local Muslims to guarantee the safety of Hindus.

D-  March 1947: Congress high command voted for dividing the Punjab into two halves.

B- On 28 November 1947: Gandhiji went to address a meeting of Sikhs at Gurdwara Sisganj.

After withdrawing its support to the Cabinet Mission plan, the Muslim League decided on “Direct Action” for winning its Pakistan demand. It announced 16 August 1946 as “Direct Action Day”. On this day, riots broke out in Calcutta, lasting several days and leaving several thousand people dead. By March 1947 violence spread to many parts of northern India. It was in March 1947 that the Congress high command voted for dividing the Punjab into two halves, one with Muslim majority and the other with Hindu/Sikh majority; and it asked for the application of a similar principle to Bengal.

The 77-year -old Gandhiji decided to stake his all in a bid to vindicate his lifelong principle of non-violence, and his conviction that people’s hearts could be changed. He moved from the villages of Noakhali in East Bengal (present-day Bangladesh) to the villages of Bihar and then to the riot-torn slums of Calcutta and Delhi, in a heroic effort to stop Hindus and Muslims kill each other, careful everywhere to reassure the minority community. In October 1946, Muslims in East Bengal targeted Hindus. Gandhiji visited the area, toured the villages on foot, and persuaded the local Muslims to guarantee the safety of Hindus. Similarly, in other places such as Delhi he tried to build a spirit of mutual trust and confidence between the two communities. A Delhi Muslim, Shahid Ahmad Dehlavi, compelled to flee to a dirty, overcrowded camp in Purana Qila, likened Gandhiji’s arrival in Delhi on 9 September 1947 to “the arrival of the rains after a particularly long and harsh summer”. Dehlavi recalled in his memoir how Muslims said to one another: “Delhi will now be saved”.

On 28 November 1947, on the occasion of Guru Nanak’s birthday, when Gandhiji went to address a meeting of Sikhs at Gurdwara Sisganj, he noticed that there was no Muslim on the Chandni Chowk road, the heart of old Delhi. “What could be more shameful for us,” he asked during a speech that evening, “than the fact that not a single Muslim could be found in Chandni Chowk?” Gandhiji continued to be in Delhi, fighting the mentality of those who wished to drive out every Muslim from the city, seeing them as Pakistani. When he began a fast to bring about a change of heart, amazingly, many Hindu and Sikh migrants fasted with him.