Ans: C

Exp:

Statement 1 is correct: It proposed freedom to India on August 15, 1947.

 Statement 2 is correct: Mountbatten Plan conceded to the League’s demand to the extent that Pakistan would be created, yet the Congress’ position on unity was taken into account to make Pakistan as small as possible. Mountbatten’s formula was to divide India but retain the maximum unity as much as possible.

Statement 3 is correct: Sindh was given the discretion to take its own decision regarding independence. It proposed referendums in NWFP and Sylhet district of Bengal to decide the fate of these areas.

Ans: C

Exp:

On July 5, 1947 the British Parliament passed the Indian Independence Act which was based on the Mountbatten Plan. The Act was implemented on August 15, 1947. The Act provided for the creation of two independent dominions of India and Pakistan with effect from August 15, 1947. Each dominion was to have a governor-general responsible for the effective operation of the Act. The constituent assembly of each new dominion was to exercise the powers of the legislature of that dominion, and the existing Central Legislative Assembly and the Council of States were to be automatically dissolved. Till a new constitution was adopted by each dominion, the governments of the two dominions were to be carried on in accordance with the Government of India Act, 1935.

As per the provisions of the Indian Independence Act, of 1947, Pakistan became independent on August 14 while India got its freedom on August 15, 1947. M.A. Jinnah became the first Governor General of Pakistan. India, however, decided to request Lord Mountbatten to continue as the Governor General of India. 

Ans : D

Exp:

Cripps Mission(1942): A mission headed by Stafford Cripps was sent to India with constitutional proposals to seek Indian support for the war.

Rajagopalachari formula (March 1944):  It aimed for seeking Muslim League’s cooperation for independence. A plebiscite was to be conducted in Muslim majority areas in North west and North East India for an Independent state.

 Cabinet mission plan (1946): Attlee government announced in February 1946 the decision to send a high-powered mission of three British cabinet members (Pethick Lawrence, Secretary of State for India; Stafford Cripps, President of the Board of Trade; and A.V. Alexander, First Lord of Admiralty) to India to find out ways and means for a negotiated, peaceful transfer of power to India.

Wavell plan (May 1945): Its idea was to reconstruct the governor general’s executive council pending the preparation of a new constitution. Caste Hindus and Muslims were to have equal representation.

 Thus the correct chronological sequence of the above event is 1-2-4-3.

Ans: B

Exp:

On February 18, 1946, some 1100 Royal Indian Navy (RIN) ratings of HMIS Talwar went on a strike to protest against:

• racial discrimination (demanding equal pay for Indian and white soldiers); Hence, Statement 1 is correct.
•  unpalatable food;
•  abuse by superior officers;
•  arrest of a rating for scrawling ‘Quit India’ on HMIS Talwar;
•  INA trials; and
•  use of Indian troops in Indonesia, demanding their withdrawal. Hence, Statement 3 is correct

Statement 2 is not correct: National parties opposed the revolt. Patel and Jinnah persuaded the ratings to surrender with the assurance that national parties would prevent any victimization.

Ans: C

Exp:

Statement 1 is correct: Post World War II British India witnessed a sporadic, localized, and often extremely militant and united mass action by workers, peasants, and states’ peoples which took the form of a countrywide strike wave. This kind of activity was occasioned by the INA Release Movement, Royal Indian Navy (RIN) revolt, the Tebhaga movement, the Worli revolt, etc.

Statement 2 is correct: Post World- war II British India saw tortuous negotiations involving the government, Congress, and Muslim League, increasingly accompanied by communal violence, culminating in freedom and partition.