Which of the following is NOT correctly matched ?
(Event) — (Year)

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Correct — D, The Communal Award — 1933. The Communal Award belongs to 1932, not 1933: it was announced by the British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald on 16 August 1932, after the Second Round Table Conference had broken down over the minorities question and the British government took the decision on itself. The Award kept separate electorates for Muslims, Sikhs, Indian Christians, Anglo-Indians and Europeans, and — the part that made it explosive — extended separate electorates to the Depressed Classes as well. Gandhi, imprisoned in Yerwada jail, began a fast unto death on 20 September 1932 against that clause, and the crisis was resolved four days later by the Poona Pact of 24 September 1932, under which the Depressed Classes gave up separate electorates in exchange for a larger number of seats reserved for them inside a joint Hindu electorate. Every landmark in that chain sits in 1932, so pairing the Award with 1933 is the error the question wants you to catch.

Why the other options are wrong — (a) Not the answer the question is after. The paper's list treats this pair as correct; be aware, though, that the naval statute of this era that is actually documented and usually asked about is the Indian Navy (Discipline) Act, 1934, under which the Royal Indian Marine was renamed and the Royal Indian Navy was formally inaugurated at Bombay on 2 October 1934. If the 1927 date feels unfamiliar, do not let it pull you off course: the Communal Award pairing is wrong on a date that no source disputes, which makes (d) the pair the question is targeting.  (b) Correctly matched, so it is not the answer. Gandhi opened the Civil Disobedience Movement with the Dandi March, setting out from Sabarmati on 12 March 1930 and breaking the salt law at Dandi on 6 April 1930; the movement then spread to no-tax campaigns, boycott of foreign cloth and forest satyagrahas across the country.  (c) Correctly matched, so it is not the answer. The Second Round Table Conference met in London in the closing months of 1931, and Gandhi attended it as the sole representative of the Congress — his participation having been agreed in the Gandhi-Irwin Pact of 5 March 1931. Its failure over the question of separate electorates for minorities is precisely what produced the Communal Award the following year.

Concept: Between 1930 and 1932 the freedom struggle and constitutional negotiation ran on two tracks at once, and the exam expects you to keep the dates of both straight. Track one is mass action: Dandi and Civil Disobedience in 1930, the movement's suspension after the Gandhi-Irwin Pact in March 1931, its resumption in January 1932 and its eventual withdrawal. Track two is the Round Table Conferences in London — the first in 1930-31 without the Congress, the second in 1931 with Gandhi, the third in 1932 again without the Congress. The Communal Award of August 1932 sits at the junction of the two tracks: it is the British answer to the deadlock of the second conference, and it triggered the Poona Pact.

State PCS 2019 Q134 — History PYQ with Answer

State PCS 2019 Q134 — History PYQ with Answer