Sir Stafford Cripps came to India with a draft declaration of proposals of British Government which included that :
India should be given a dominion status.
All provinces and States must be merged to make the Indian Union.
Any province or the State can take the decision to live outside of the Indian Union.
Indian Constitution must be constituted by the people of India
Choose the correct answer from the code given below –
Code :
Correct Answer:
(D)
All of the above
After reaching India in March, 1942, Stafford Cripps presented the proposal whose major recommendations were
i- After war, India should be given a Dominion Status and which would not be subject to any external authority
ii- Indians should be given the right to form their own Constitution for which the Council of Constitution making-body will be initiated after the war.
iii- The Provinces not agreeing to the new Constitution would have the right to keep themselves out of the proposed Union. Such provinces will be entitled to constitute their own separate Constitution.
iv- During the war, an interim government comprising of different parties of India would be constituted. However, defence and external affairs would be the sole responsibility of the Viceroy.
Ques:
52
Who viewed the Cripps proposal as a post-dated cheque upon a crashing bank'?
Correct Answer:
(A)
Mahatma Gandhi
Cripps Mission visited India and announced the draft proposal. Mahatma Gandhi called the proposal as "the postdated cheque".
Ques:
53
Consider the following statements: The 'Cripps' proposals include the provision for:
Full independence for India.
Creation of Constitution-making body.
Which of the statement(s) given above is/are correct?
Correct Answer:
(B)
Only 2
According to Cripps Mission, India was proposed to be entered in Dominion State after Second World War. Cripps Mission also proposed to make a Constitution-making body. Thus, only statement (2) is correct.
Ques:
54
Who of the following Prime Ministers sent Cripps Mission to India?
Correct Answer:
(D)
Winston Churchill
To seek help and India’s participation in Second World War in March, 1942 the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill sent Cripps Mission to India under the leadership of Sir Stafford Cripps.
Ques:
55
Who among the following were official Congress negotiators with Cripps Mission?
Correct Answer:
(C)
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and Maulana Azad.
Nehru and Maulana Azad were the official negotiators for the Congress with Cripps Mission.
Ques:
56
Who among the following had primarily used the word ‘Pakistan’ for separate State for Indian Muslims?
Correct Answer:
(D)
Chaudhary Rehmat Ali and his friends
The word Pakistan was primarily used by the student of Cambridge University Chaudhary Rehmat Ali in his letter entitled “Now or Never.”
Ques:
57
The idea of a separate Nation for Muslims was given by:
Correct Answer:
(C)
Sir Mohammad Iqbal
The poet and political Philosopher Mohammad Iqbal is considered as the originator of the idea of the separate Muslim nation. Inspired by the spirit of Pan-Islam in All India Muslim League at Allahabad Session in 1930 Muhammad Iqbal said “ I would like to see Punjab, the North-West Frontier Province, Sindh and Balochistan amalgamated into a single state. Self-Government within the British Empire, or without the British Empire, formation of a consolidated North-West Indian Muslim state appears to me to be the final destiny of the Muslims, at least of North-West India.
Ques:
58
Who among the following first put forward the proposal for a separate Muslim state in India?
Correct Answer:
(D)
Mohammad Iqbal
During his landmark Presidential address to the annual session of the All-India Muslim League at Allahabad in 1930, Iqbal declared Hindus and Muslims to be two separate Nations in the light of the religious, social, cultural and historical context.
Ques:
59
Who among the following led the movement for the separate State Pakistan?
Correct Answer:
(D)
Md. Ali Jinnah
From March 22 to 24, 1940, the session of Muslim League was held at Lahore in the Presidentship of Mohammad Ali Jinnah. In this session, he demanded a separate Muslim Nation apart from India. Jinnah said in his speech that he would not accept anything other than a separate Muslim Nation.
Ques:
60
Who of the following called Mohammad Ali Jinnah as ‘Ambassador of Hindu-Muslim Unity’?
Correct Answer:
(A)
Sarojini Naidu
In 1919 when Jinnah was giving testimony in front of Parliament Select Committee, then he was asked: “Are you saying this as a virtue of the Indian Nationalist”? In reply, he firmly said, “yes, I am saying this as a virtue of Indian Nationalist.” After that, Major Oksbergi asked, “means you want to finish the discrimination between Muslim and Hindu at the earliest?” In answer, Jinnah said- ‘yes, I will be the happiest person when that day comes.’ For these Nationalist views and to compromising Muslim League and Congress Sarojini Naidu hailed him “Ambassador of Hindu-Muslim Unity.”