Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

History

Chapter

Modern India: Understanding Partition

Question:

On 28 November 1947, on the occasion of Guru Nanak’s birthday, Gandhiji went to which Gurdwara and expressed his dissatisfaction with not seeing any Muslims at the Chandni Chowk road?

Options:

Gurdwara Sisganj

Gurdwara Keshganj

Gurdwara Harmandir Sahib

Gurdwara Anandpur

Correct Answer:

Gurdwara Sisganj

Explanation:

On 28 November 1947, on the occasion of Guru Nanak’s birthday, when Gandhiji went to address a meeting of Sikhs at Gurdwara Sisganj, he noticed that there was no Muslim on the Chandni Chowk road, the heart of old Delhi. “What could be more shameful for us,” he asked during a speech that evening, “than the fact that not a single Muslim could be found in Chandni Chowk?” Gandhiji continued to be in Delhi, fighting the mentality of those who wished to drive out every Muslim from the city, seeing them as Pakistani. When he began a fast to bring about a change of heart, amazingly, many Hindu and Sikh migrants fasted with him.