Ans : D

Exp :

Pair 1 is incorrectly matched : Lee Commission was appointed in 1923 to look into the organisation and general conditions of service as well as the methods of recruitment for Europeans and Indians in the Civil Services. Being concerned only with the superior civil services, it came to be known as the Royal Commission on the Superior Civil Services in India.

Pair 2 is incorrectly matched: Muddiman Committee, officially known as the Report of the Reforms Enquiry Committee, was set up in 1924, mainly to look into the working of the Constitution as set up in 1921 under the Act of 1919.

Pair 3 is incorrectly matched : Linlithgow Commission, officially the Royal Commission of Agriculture, was set up to examine and report the condition of India’s agricultural and rural economy. The commission submitted its report in 1928 and made comprehensive recommendations for the improvement of the agrarian economy as the foundation for the welfare and prosperity of India’s rural population.

Pair  4 is correctly matched: Simon Commission was set up by the British government on November 8, 1927. It was an all-white, seven-member committee which was articulated under the Government of India Act, 1919. The commission was to recommend to the British Government whether India was ready for further Constitutional reforms. 

Ans: A 

Exp: 

Statement 1 is correct:  The Butler Committee was set up in 1927 to examine the nature of relationship between the princely states and the government. 

Statement 2 is incorrect : Lord Irwin was the Viceroy of India during 1927 when Butler Committee was appointed . His tenure was 1926-31. Appointment of Simon Commission  and Dandi March were other important events during his tenure.

Statement 3 is incorrect. Butler Commission gave following recommendations : 

1. Paramountcy must remain supreme and must fulfill its obligations, adopting and defining itself according to the shifting necessities of time and progressive development of states.
2. States should not be handed over to an Indian Government in British India, responsible to an Indian legislature, without the consent of states.

Ans: A

Exp:
Pair 1 is incorrect : Bandi Jivan (A life of Captivity) is the autobiographical three part account written by Sachindranath Sanyal. Bandi Jivan largely deals with the revolutionary activities of Sachindra Nath over the course of his political career, as well as spells in prison. He was first sentenced to life imprisonment for the first time in 1915 for attempting to gather support for the underground revolutionary activities in Bengal. 

Pair 2 is incorrect: Pather Dabi is a Bengali novel written by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay. It was first published as a novel in 1926, after having been initially serialised in the journal Bangabani. The book is about a secret society named Pather Dabi whose goal was to free India from British rule. 

Pair 3 is correct : The Indian Sociologist was an Indian nationalist journal in the early 20th century written by Shyamaji Krishnavarma. Its subtitle was An Organ of Freedom, and Political, Social, and Religious Reform, mouthpiece of the nationalist revolutionaries.

Ans : B

Exp :

Statement 1 is correct: The All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) is the oldest trade union federation in India,  associated with the Communist Party of India. AITUC in its second session in 1921 in Jharia had adopted a resolution of Swaraj (Complete independence from British rule), almost eight years before the Congress adopted such resolution in 1929.

Statement 2 is incorrect: It was founded on 31 October 1920 with Lala Lajpat Rai as its first president. It was founded in Bombay by Lala Lajpat Rai, Joseph Baptista, N. M. Joshi, Diwan Chaman Lall and a few others and, until 1945 when unions became organised on party lines, it was the primary trade union organisation in India. Since then, it has been associated with the Communist Party of India.

Statement 3 is correct : AITUC is a founder member of the World Federation of Trade Unions and its institutional records are part of the Archives at the Nehru Memorial Museum & Library, at Teen Murti House, Delhi. “Trade Union Record” is the fortnightly journal of the AITUC. 

Ans: C

Exp:

Option 1 : Policy of Subordinate Union (1857-1935)- After 1858 there was the assumption of direct responsibility by the Crown. The policy of annexation was abandoned because of the states’ loyalty during the 1857 revolt and their potential use as breakwaters in political storms of the future. The new policy was to punish or depose but not to annex. The paramount supremacy of the Crown presupposed and implied the subordination of states. 

Option 2 : Policy of Ring fence (1765-1813)- The policy was aimed at creating buffer zones to defend the Company’s frontiers. The main threat was from the Marathas and Afghan invaders. Wellesley’s policy of Subsidiary Alliance was an extension of the ring fence—which sought to reduce states to a position of dependence on the British Government in India. 

Option 3 : Policy of Equal Federation (1935-1947)- The Government of India Act, 1935 proposed a Federal Assembly with 125 out of 375 seats for the princes and the Council of States with 104 out of 160 seats for the princes, under its scheme of an all-India federation, which was subject to ratification by states representing more than half of the population and entitled to more than half of the seats in the Council of States.Though it never came into existence. 

Option 4 : Policy of Subordinate Isolation: (1813–1857)- Under it , Indian states were supposed to act in subordinate cooperation with the British government and acknowledge its supremacy. The states surrendered all forms of external sovereignty but retained sovereignty in internal administration. 

So, the correct chronological order is 2-4-1-3.