During the Quit India Movement parallel ‘National Government’ was established at many places.

Which of the following is not correctly matched ?

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During the Quit India Movement parallel ‘National Government’ was established at many places. Which of the following is not correctly matched ?

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Correct — B, Raiyati Sarkar – Kheda (Gujarat). The question asks for the pair that does NOT belong, so the work is to confirm the other three and then see what is left. Satara, Tamluk and Talcher are three of the places the standard accounts name as sites where the Quit India Movement produced parallel authority — Ballia is another, and each of the three labels attached to them in this question is the label those accounts use. Kheda is the outlier. Kheda's place in the national movement is the revenue satyagraha of 1918, when Gandhi and Vallabhbhai Patel led peasants to withhold land revenue after crop failure — twenty-four years before Quit India, a different kind of campaign, and one that produced no parallel administration at all. No 'Raiyati Sarkar' is recorded at Kheda in 1942. The name itself is a clue to the fabrication: raiyati simply means 'of the tenant-cultivator', a revenue-law word, which is exactly the vocabulary of the 1918 Kheda agitation rather than of a 1942 national government. A candidate who half-remembers 'Kheda' and 'peasants' together can be pushed into accepting the pair, which is what the option is built to do. Honest caveat: this is one of the less securely documented items on the paper. The three genuine pairs can be confirmed in the standard literature; the phrase 'Raiyati Sarkar' is thinly attested anywhere, and where it does appear it is associated with Bardoli rather than Kheda. That the label cannot be pinned to Kheda is precisely why it is the odd one out, but a student should know the item rests on the absence of evidence for (b) rather than on a positive record of a Raiyati Sarkar somewhere else.

Why the other options are wrong — (a) Correctly matched, so not the answer. Krantisinh Nana Patil (1900-1976) founded the Prati Sarkar — literally 'counter-government' — and ran a parallel administration in Satara district. He was underground for 44 months from 1942 and worked mainly through the Tasgaon, Khanapur, Walva and south Karad talukas; he later sat in the Lok Sabha from Satara.  (c) Correctly matched, so not the answer. The Tamralipta Jatiya Sarkar was formed on 17 December 1942 in the Tamluk and Contai subdivisions of Midnapore, with Satish Chandra Samanta as Sarbadhinayak. It ran police stations, courts and a revenue system, published a paper called Biplabi, raised an armed wing, the Bidyut Bahini, and was dissolved on 8 August 1944 at Gandhi's own request.  (d) Correctly matched, so not the answer. Talcher was a princely state, and in princely India the popular political association was called the Praja Mandal rather than a Congress committee. Talcher is named alongside Satara and Midnapore in accounts of where the 1942 movement displaced the existing administration, and the Praja Mandal is the body through which it was done there.

Concept: The Quit India Movement began on 9 August 1942, the morning after the All India Congress Committee passed the Quit India resolution in Bombay, and within hours the entire Congress leadership was in jail. That decapitation is the key to what followed: with no central direction, the movement became a series of intensely local risings, and in a handful of places the rebels did not merely disrupt British administration but replaced it. A parallel government meant real functions — collecting revenue, running courts, policing, arbitrating disputes, sometimes maintaining an armed volunteer force. The scale of the state's response is a measure of how serious this was: the Government of India deployed fifty-seven battalions of troops to restore order, soldiers who were badly needed for the war. Bihar, notably, saw the greatest level of violence of any province in the rising.

State PCS 2024 Q66 — History PYQ with Answer

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