Why did several scholars note that “no other country was born in a situation more difficult than that of India in 1947?”
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → Freedom came with the partition of the country following unprecedented violence and trauma of displacement.
Option (1) Freedom came with the partition of the country following unprecedented violence and trauma of displacement. — Correct. Freedom came with the partition of the country, and 1947 was a year of unprecedented violence and trauma of displacement.
Option (2) Freedom came with the promise of supporting the Bangladesh War of Independence. — Incorrect. Bangladesh was born only in 1971, long after 1947.
Option (3) Freedom came with responsibility of guaranteeing universal adult franchise ... — Incorrect. The hardship of 1947 came from partition and violence, not from the right to vote.
Option (4) Freedom came with goal of maintaining privy purse in India. — Incorrect. The privy purse was a privilege given to former princes, later abolished; it does not explain the difficulty of 1947.
NCERT (2025-26): “Challenges for the new nation-state … This was not going to be easy. India was born as a nation-state in very difficult circumstances. Perhaps no other country by then was born in a situation more difficult than that of India in 1947. Freedom came with the partition of the country. The year 1947 was a year of unprecedented violence and trauma of displacement. It was in this situation that independent India started on its journey to achieve several objectives.” |