Identify the correct chronological order of these events.

A. 'Objectives Resolution' introduced in the Constituent Assembly.
B. Quit India Movement.
C. B. Pocker Bahadur made a powerful plea for continuing separate electorates.
D. The Great Calcutta Killing.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

B, D, A, C

The correct answer is Option (1) → B, D, A, C

The correct chronological order of the events is:

B - August 1942: Quit India Movement.
D - 16 August 1946: The Great Calcutta Killing.
A - 13 December 1946: 'Objectives Resolution' introduced in the Constituent Assembly.
C - 27 August 1947: B. Pocker Bahadur made a powerful plea for continuing separate electorates.

Explanation:

B - August 1942: Quit India Movement.

After the failure of the Cripps Mission, Mahatma Gandhi decided to launch his third major movement against British rule. This was the “Quit India” campaign, which began in August 1942.

D - 16 August 1946: The Great Calcutta Killing.

Direct Action Day (16 August 1946), also known as the 1946 Calcutta Killings, was a day of nationwide communal riots. The Great Calcutta Killings were a series of riots and clashes in Calcutta (now Kolkata) that occurred in August 1946, leading to significant violence and loss of life.

A - 13 December 1946: 'Objectives Resolution' in the Constituent Assembly.

On 13 December 1946, Jawaharlal Nehru introduced the “Objectives Resolution” in the Constituent Assembly. It was a momentous resolution that outlined the defining ideals of the Constitution of Independent India, and provided the framework within which the work of constitution-making was to proceed. It proclaimed India to be an “Independent Sovereign Republic”, guaranteed its citizens justice, equality and freedom, and assured that “adequate safeguards shall be provided for minorities, backward and tribal areas, and Depressed and Other Backward Classes … ” After outlining these objectives, Nehru placed the Indian experiment in a broad historical perspective. As he spoke, he said, his mind went back to the historic efforts in the past to produce such documents of rights.

C. B. Pocker Bahadur made powerful plea for continuing separate electorates.

On 27 August 1947, B. Pocker Bahadur from Madras made a powerful plea for continuing separate electorates. Minorities exist in all lands, argued Bahadur; they could not be wished away, they could not be “erased out of existence”. The need was to create a political framework in which minorities could live in harmony with others, and the differences between communities could be minimised. This was possible only if minorites were well represented within the political system, their voices heard.