Ans: B

Exp:

• Gandhi, along with a band of 78 members of Sabarmati Ashram, started the Dandi march on 12 March 1930
• The first Round Table Conference was held in London between November 1930 and January 1931. It was opened officially by King George V on 12 November 1930 and chaired by Ramsay MacDonald.
• The Gandhi-Irwin Pact, also known as the Delhi Pact, was a significant agreement signed between Mahatma Gandhi and Lord Irwin (then Viceroy of India) on 5 March 1931.
• A special session of the Congress was held at Karachi to endorse the Gandhi-Irwin Pact on 26 March 1931

Ans: C

Exp:

The Communal Award was a significant political decision made by the British government on 16 August  1932, aimed at addressing the issue of political representation and rights for different religious communities in India during the colonial era.

Main Provisions of the Communal Award:

• Muslims, Europeans, Sikhs, Indian Christians, Anglo- Indians, depressed classes, women, and even the Marathas were to get separate electorates. Such an arrangement for the depressed classes was to be made for a period of 20 years.  Hence, statement 1 is incorrect 

• Except in the North West Frontier Province, 3 percent of seats were to be reserved for women in all provinces. Hence, statement 2 is incorrect.

• In the provincial legislatures, the seats were to be distributed on communal basis. Hence, statement 3 is incorrect.

• The existing seats in the provincial legislatures were to be doubled.
• The Muslims, wherever they were in minority, were to be granted a weightage.
• The depressed classes were to be declared/accorded the status of minority.
• The depressed classes were to get ‘double vote’, one to be used through separate electorates and the other to be used in the general electorates.
• Allocations of seats were to be made for labourers, landlords, traders, and industrialists.
• In the province of Bombay, 7 seats were to be allocated for the Marathas.

Ans: B

Exp:

The Lahore session of the Indian National Congress took place from December 29 to 31, 1929, in Lahore.

The following major decisions were taken at the Lahore session:

• • The Round Table Conference was to be boycotted. Hence, statement 1 is correct

• Complete independence (and not dominion status) was declared the aim of the Congress. Hence, statement 2 is incorrect

• • Congress Working Committee was authorised to launch a programme of civil disobedience, including non-payment of taxes, and all members of legislatures were asked to resign their seats.
• January 26, 1930, was fixed as the first Independence (Swarajya) Day, to be celebrated everywhere.  Hence, statement 3 is correct

Ans: B

Exp:

Pair 1 is correctly matched : Gopalbandhu Choudhuri, a Gandhian leader, salt satyagraha proved effective in the coastal regions of Balasore, Cuttack, and Puri districts of Orissa.

Pair 2 is incorrectly matched : C. Rajagopalachari April 1930, organised a march from Tiruchirapalli to Vedaranniyam on the Tanjore coast to break the salt law.

Pair 3 is correctly matched: Chandraprabha Saikiani in December 1930, organised civil disobedience by breaking of forest law in Assam.

Pair 4 is incorrectly matched: K. Kelappan, a Nair Congress leader famed for the Vaikom Satyagraha, organised salt march at Malabar.

Ans: B

Exp:

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan was a devout follower of Mahatma Gandhi’s principles of nonviolence and civil disobedience. He believed in the power of peaceful resistance to achieve political and social change.  Gaffar Khan, also called Badshah Khan and Frontier Gandhi, had started the first Pushto political monthly Pukhtoon and had organised a volunteer brigade ‘Khudai Khidmatgars’, popularly known as the ‘Red-Shirts’, who were pledged to the freedom struggle and non-violence.