Arrange the following events in chronological order.
A. Signing of the Constitution of India
B. Independence Day
C. The Great Calcutta Killings
D. General Elections in India
E. Quit India Movement
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → E, D, C, B, A
(E) Quit India Movement — August 1942, perhaps the most widespread popular movement against the British Raj.
(D) General Elections in India — December 1945 to January 1946, soon after the Labour Government came to power in Britain.
(C) The Great Calcutta Killings — August 1946: the Muslim League announced Direct Action Day on 16 August 1946, and the killings in Calcutta began a year of almost continuous rioting across northern and eastern India.
(B) Independence Day — 15 August 1947: at midnight on 14-15 August India celebrated its independence.
(A) Signing of the Constitution of India — December 1949, after three years of debate in the Constituent Assembly.
NCERT (2026-27): “1. A Tumultuous Time … The years immediately preceding the making of the Constitution had been exceptionally tumultuous: a time of great hope, but also of abject disappointment. On 15 August 1947, India had been made free, but it had also been divided. Fresh in popular memory were the Quit India struggle of 1942 – perhaps the most widespread popular movement against the British Raj – as well as the bid by Subhas Chandra Bose to win freedom through armed struggle with foreign aid. An even more recent upsurge had also evoked much popular sympathy – this was the rising of the ratings of the Royal Indian Navy in Bombay and other cities in the spring of 1946. Through the late 1940s there were periodic, if scattered, mass protests of workers and peasants in different parts of the country. One striking feature of these popular upsurges was the degree of Hindu-Muslim unity they manifested. In contrast, the two leading Indian political parties, the Congress and the Muslim League, had repeatedly failed to arrive at a settlement that would bring about religious reconciliation and social harmony. The Great Calcutta Killings of August 1946 began a year of almost continuous rioting across northern and eastern India (see Chapter 11).…”
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