Ans: D

Exp: 

• Option A is incorrect: The British government appointed the Boundary Commission under the chairmanship of Sir Cyril Radcliffe. The Boundary Commission consisted of two Muslims and two non-Muslim judges in each case, and worked under serious constraints. The Radcliffe line exists between India and Pakistan.
• Option B is incorrect: The All India Trade Union Congress was founded on October 31, 1920. The Indian National Congress president for the year, Lala Lajpat Rai, was elected as the first president of AITUC and Dewan Chaman Lal as the first general secretary. Lajpat Rai was the first to link capitalism with imperialism.
• Option C is incorrect : Subramaniya Siva and Chidambaram Pillai led strikes in Tuticorin and Tirunelveli and were arrested during the Swadeshi movement and not Quit India Movement.
• Option D is correct : The Butler Committee (1927) was set up to examine the nature of relationship between the princely states and the government. It gave the following recommendations: 

•  Paramountcy must remain supreme and fulfil its obligations, adopting and defining itself according to the shifting necessities of time and progressive development of states.

•  States should not be handed over to an Indian Government in British India, responsible to an Indian legislature, without the consent of states. 

Ans: D

Exp: 

• Statement 1 is incorrect:  The nationalists were unwilling to take up the question of labour versus the indigenous employer as they were busy in the struggle for the freedom of the Nation. Most of the nationalist newspapers, in fact, denied the need for any Government legislation to regulate working conditions and actively opposed the Factories Acts of 1881 and 1891. Similarly, strikes in Indian textile mills were generally not supported.
• Statement 2 is incorrect: After the end of the First World War, the prices of commodities were soaring, but the wages of labour were too low. This led to discontent among workers. The need was felt for the organisation of the workers in trade unions and thus the formation of AITUC took place on October 31, 1920. 
  • Lala Lajpat Rai, was elected as the first president of AITUC and Dewan Chaman Lal as the first general secretary.
  • The Gaya session of the Congress (1922) welcomed the formation of the AITUC, and a committee was formed to assist it. Hence, Statement 2 is incorrect.

Ans: D

Exp:

• Statement 1 is correct: Narayan Malhar Joshi founded the Social Service League in Bombay with the aim of securing for the masses better and reasonable conditions of life and work. He  also founded the All India Trade Union Congress (1920). 
• Statement 2 is correct: In 1929, the government crackdown on communists resulted in the arrest and trial of 31 leading communists, trade unionists and left-wing leaders; they were tried at Meerut in the famous Meerut conspiracy case.

Ans: C

Exp:

Shasipada Banerjee was a social worker and a leader of the Brahmo Samaj.  He was one of the earliest advocates for labour welfare in India. Sasipada Banerjea started a workingmen’s club and  a newspaper called ‘Bharat Shramjeevi’  in 1870. 

Ans: D

Exp:

Statement 1 is correct: The  Praja Mandal Movements implemented the constructive programmes like establishing schools, using khadi, encouraging cottage industries and fighting against the practices like untouchability.

Statement 2 is correct: In February 1938, the Haripura session was held in Gujarat. It considered the Princely states to be integral part of India and desired the same political, social and economic freedom in the States as in the rest of India. In this session a resolution was adopted that the Congress would give moral support to those who were agitating against the governance in the princely states.