Which of the following pairs of what was written or said about Gandhi…

Which of the following pairs of what was written or said about Gandhi, the Depressed Classes or the war, and its author, is correctly matched?

Answer & explanation

Correct answer: option 1

The correct answer is Option (1) → What Congress and Gandhi Have Done to the Untouchables - Babasaheb Ambedkar

Option (1) What Congress and Gandhi Have Done to the Untouchables - Babasaheb Ambedkar — Correct. What Congress and Gandhi Have Done to the Untouchables is Ambedkar's work. In it he argued that the Depressed Classes needed a share of political power.

Option (2) Promise of Congress support to the war effort in return for independence - Jinnah — Incorrect. The promise of support in return for independence came from Gandhi and Nehru. Jinnah led the Muslim League.

Option (3) Letter to his sister calling Gandhi's moves a political manoeuvre - Lord Linlithgow — Incorrect. The letter to his sister was written by Willingdon. Linlithgow was the Viceroy whom Gandhi and Rajendra Prasad met in October 1939.

Option (4) Refusal to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire - Stafford Cripps — Incorrect. This was said by Winston Churchill, the Conservative Prime Minister. Cripps was the minister he sent to India in 1942.

NCERT (2026-27): “3.2 Dialogues …
for the Depressed Classes, Ambedkar wrote: Here is a class which is undoubtedly not in a position to sustain itself in the struggle for existence. The religion, to which they are tied, instead of providing them an honourable place, brands them as lepers, not fit for ordinary intercourse. Economically, it is a class entirely dependent upon the high-caste Hindus for earning its daily bread with no independent way of living open to it. Nor are all ways closed by reason of the social prejudices of the Hindus but there is a definite attempt all through our Hindu Society to bolt every possible door so as not to allow the Depressed Classes any opportunity to rise in the scale of life. In these circumstances, it would be granted by all fairminded persons that as the only path for a community so handicapped to succeed in the struggle for life against organised tyranny, some share of political power in order that it may protect itself is a paramount necessity …”

“FROM DR BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR, HAVE DONE TO THE UNTOUCHABLES”, WRITINGS AND SPEECHES, VOL. 9, P. 312 “WHAT CONGRESS AND GANDHI”

Which of the following pairs of what was written or said about Gandhi, the Depressed Classes or the war, and its author, is correctly matched?

Answer & explanation

Correct answer: option 1

The correct answer is Option (1) → What Congress and Gandhi Have Done to the Untouchables - Babasaheb Ambedkar

“FROM DR BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR, HAVE DONE TO THE UNTOUCHABLES”, WRITINGS AND SPEECHES, VOL. 9, P. 312 “WHAT CONGRESS AND GANDHI”