Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

History

Chapter

Modern India: Framing the Constitution

Question:

Match List - I with List - II:

List - I

List - II

 (A) General Elections in India

 (I) 1946

 (B) Constitution is signed

 (II) 1949

 (C) India's Independence

 (III) 1947  

 (D) Constituent Assembly session begins 

 (IV) 1945

Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

Options:

(A)-(I), (B)-(II), (C)-(III), (D)-(IV)

(A)-(IV), (B)-(II), (C)-(III), (D)-(I)

(A)-(II), (B)-(I), (C)-(III), (D)-(IV)

(A)-(III), (B)-(II), (C)-(IV), (D)-(I)

Correct Answer:

(A)-(IV), (B)-(II), (C)-(III), (D)-(I)

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option (2) → (A)-(IV), (B)-(II), (C)-(III), (D)-(I)

Correct Match:

List - I

List - II

 (A) General Elections in India

(IV) 1945

 (B) Constitution is signed

(II) 1949

 (C) India's Independence

(III) 1947  

 (D) Constituent Assembly session begins 

(I) 1946

 

Timeline - Important dates and years related to the Independence of India:

1945
26 July- Labour Government comes into power in Britain
December 1945 -January General Elections in India

1946:

16 May- Cabinet Mission announces its constitutional scheme
16 June- Muslim League accepts Cabinet Mission’s constitutional scheme
16 June- Cabinet Mission presents scheme for the formation of an Interim Government at the Centre
16 August- Muslim League announces Direct Action Day
2 September- Congress forms Interim Government with Nehru as the Vice-President
13 October- Muslim League decides to join the Interim Government
3-6 December- British Prime Minister, Attlee, meets some Indian leaders; talks fail
9 December 1946: Constituent Assembly begins its sessions

1947:

29 January- Muslim League demands dissolution of Constituent Assembly
16 July- Last meeting of the Interim Government
11 August- Jinnah elected President of the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan
14 August- Pakistan Independence; celebrations in Karachi
14-15 August 1947: At midnight India celebrates Independence

 

1949:

December 1949: Constitution is signed