Arrange the following events in chronological order:(A) The Congress…

Arrange the following events in chronological order:

(A) The Congress came to power in eight out of the 11 provinces.
(B) Indian leaders went to London for a fruitless round of talks with Prime Minister Attlee.
(C) The executive was made partly responsible to the provincial legislature.
(D) The tragic partition of the country took place.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Answer & explanation

Correct answer: option 4

The correct answer is Option (4) → C, A, B, D

(C) The executive was made partly responsible to the provincial legislature. — First. The executive was made partly responsible to the provincial legislature in 1919, the earliest of these events.

(A) The Congress came to power in eight out of the 11 provinces. — Second. Elections under the 1935 Act were held in 1937, and the Congress won power in eight of the 11 provinces.

(B) Indian leaders went to London for a fruitless round of talks with Prime Minister Attlee. — Third. The London talks with Attlee took place in the winter of 1946 and came to nothing.

(D) The tragic partition of the country took place. — Fourth. The partition came in 1947, after the failed talks, and it hardened nationalist feeling against separate electorates.

NCERT (2026-27): “2.1 The will of the people …
In fact, as the demand for representation grew, the British had been forced to introduce a series of constitutional reforms. A number of Acts were passed (1909, 1919 and 1935), gradually enlarging the space for Indian participation in provincial governments. The executive was made partly responsible to the provincial legislature in 1919, and almost entirely so under the Government of India Act of 1935. When elections were held in 1937, under the 1935 Act, the Congress came to power in eight out of the 11 provinces.”

“Fig. 12.8 In the winter of 1946 Indian leaders went to London for what turned out to be a fruitless round of talks with British Prime Minister Attlee. …”