Ans: C

Exp:

Statement 1 is incorrect: In July 1942, the Congress Working Committee met at Wardha and resolved that it would authorise Gandhi to take charge of the non-violent mass movement. The resolution is generally referred to as the ‘Quit India’ resolution which was proposed by Jawaharlal Nehru and seconded by Sardar Patel.

Statement 2 is correct: The Quit India Resolution was ratified at the Congress meeting at Gowalia Tank, Bombay, on August 8, 1942.

Statement 3 is correct: The Quit India Resolution demanded an immediate end to British rule in India.

Other demands:

• Declare commitment of free India to defend itself against all types of Fascism and imperialism.
• Form a provisional Government of India after British withdrawal.
• Sanction a civil disobedience movement against British rule.

Ans: B

Exp:

Statement 1 is correct: The “August Offer” refers to the proposal made by the British government in August 1940 during World War II  to get the cooperation of Indians in the war effort. The offer was an attempt to address India’s demand for more significant political representation and self-governance. It was announced by Viceroy Linlithgow in 1940.

Statement 2 is incorrect: August Offer proposed dominion status (not complete independence)for India after the war gets over;

Other proposals:

• Expansion of viceroy’s executive council which would have a majority of Indians (who would be drawn from major political parties);
• Setting up of a constituent assembly after the war where mainly Indians would decide the constitution according to their social, economic, and political conceptions, subject to fulfillment of the obligation of the government regarding defence, minority rights, treaties with States, all India services; and
• No future constitution to be adopted without the consent of minorities.

Ans: A

Exp:

• Viceroy of India, Lord Linlithgow proposed “August Offer” at Simla, for expansion of the Executive Council to include more Indians, the establishment of an advisory war council, giving weight to minority opinion, and the recognition of Indians’ right to frame their own constitution on 8 August 1940
• Mahatma Gandhi had chosen Acharya Vinoba Bhave as the first satyagrahi  to start Individual satyagraha on 17 October 1940
• The Quit India Movement, also known as the Bharat Chhodo Andolan, was a movement launched at the Bombay session of the All India Congress Committee by Mahatma Gandhi on 8 August 1942
• Lord Wavell, Viceroy of India, first introduced Wavell Plan on June 1945 at the Simla Conference.

Ans: B

Exp:

Major provisions of Cabinet Mission Plan were:

• Rejection of the demand for a full-fledged Pakistan, Hence statement 1 is incorrect.

• Grouping of existing provincial assemblies into three sections. Hence statement 2 is correct .

• Three-tier executive and legislature at provincial, section, and union levels, Hence statement 3 is correct.

• A constituent assembly was to be elected by provincial assemblies by proportional representation. In the constituent assembly, members from groups A, B, and C were to sit separately to decide the constitution for provinces
• A common centre would control defence, communication, and external affairs. A federal structure was envisaged for India.
• Communal questions in the central legislature were to be decided by a simple majority of both communities present and voting.
• Provinces were to have full autonomy and residual powers. 
• Princely states were no longer to be under the paramountcy of the British government. They would be free to enter into an arrangement with successor governments or the British government.
• After the first general elections, a province was to be free to come out of a group and after 10 years, a province was to be free to call for a reconsideration of the group or the union constitution. 
• Meanwhile, an interim government was to be formed from the constituent assembly.

Ans: C

Exp:

The individual Satyagraha was a part of the larger civil disobedience movement (1930-1934) launched by the Indian National Congress against British colonial rule in India. The aims of launching individual satyagraha were: (i) to show that nationalist patience was not due to weakness; (ii) to express people’s feeling that they were not interested in the war and that they made no distinction between Nazism and the double autocracy that ruled India; and (iii) to give another opportunity to the government to accept Congress’ demands peacefully. Vinoba Bhave was the first to offer the satyagraha and Nehru, the second.