Identify the correct statements from below:
A. B. Pocker Bahadur from Madras made a powerful plea for continuing separate electorates.
B. N.G. Ranga urged that the term minorities be interpreted in economic terms.
C. All Muslims supported the demand for separate electorates.
D. Govind Ballabh Pant declared that, separate electorates were not only harmful for the nation but also for the minorities.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → A, B and D only
A. B. Pocker Bahadur from Madras made a powerful plea for continuing separate electorates. Correct. On 27 August 1947 he argued that minorities exist in all lands and could not be wished away.
B. N.G. Ranga urged that the term minorities be interpreted in economic terms. Correct. For Ranga, a socialist and peasant leader, the real minorities were the poor and the downtrodden.
C. All Muslims supported the demand for separate electorates. Incorrect. Not all Muslims supported the demand for separate electorates. Begum Aizaas Rasul, for example, felt that they were self-destructive because they isolated the minorities from the majority.
D. Govind Ballabh Pant declared that, separate electorates were not only harmful for the nation but also for the minorities. Correct. Pant said this while countering the demand for separate electorates in the Constituent Assembly.
NCERT (2025-26): “3.1 The problem with separate electorates … On 27 August 1947, B. Pocker Bahadur from Madras made a powerful plea for continuing separate electorates.… Countering the demand for separate electorates, Govind Ballabh Pant declared that it was not only harmful for the nation but also for the minorities.… …Not all Muslims supported the demand for separate electorates. Begum Aizaas Rasul, for instance, felt that separate electorates were self-destructive since they isolated the minorities from the majority.… 3.2 ‘We will need much more than this Resolution’ … While welcoming the Objectives Resolution, N.G. Ranga, a socialist who had been a leader of the peasant movement, urged that the term minorities be interpreted in economic terms. The real minorities for Ranga were the poor and the downtrodden.…” |