In the given question, a statement of Assertion is followed by a statement of Reason. Mark the correct answer.

Assertion: By 1940, Winston Churchill had become the Prime Minister of Britain and was not in favor of giving independence to India.
Reason: He was a diehard imperialist who insisted that he had not been appointed the King’s First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.

Both the Assertion and the Reason are correct and the Reason is the correct explanation of the Assertion.

The correct answer is Option 1 - Both the Assertion and the Reason are correct and the Reason is the correct explanation of the Assertion.

Assertion: By 1940, Winston Churchill had become the Prime Minister of Britain and was not in favor of giving independence to India.
Reason: He was a diehard imperialist who insisted that he had not been appointed the King’s First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.

The Reason directly explains why Churchill, as Prime Minister, was opposed to giving independence to India. His imperialist ideology and his belief in the British Empire's permanence were core reasons for his opposition.
Given that both statements are true and the Reason correctly explains the Assertion, the correct answer is Both Assertion and Reason are true, and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion.

Meanwhile, in March 1940, the Muslim League passed a resolution demanding a measure of autonomy for the Muslim-majority areas of the subcontinent.The political landscape was now becoming complicated: it was no longer Indians versus the British; rather, it had become a thr ee- way struggle between the Congress, the Muslim League, and the British. At this time Britain had an all-party government, whose Labour members were sympathetic to Indian aspirations, but whose Conservative Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, was a diehard imperialist who insisted that he had not been appointed the King’s First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.