Consider the following events and arrange them into chronological order :
I. Sharda Act
II. Nehru Report
III. Constitution of Simon Commission
IV. Dandi March
Select the correct answer using the codes

Question

Consider the following events and arrange them into chronological order :
I. Sharda Act
II. Nehru Report
III. Constitution of Simon Commission
IV. Dandi March
Select the correct answer using the codes given below.
Codes :

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Correct — A, III, II, I and IV. Ordering the four events by year: III. Constitution of the Simon Commission (announced November 1927) → II. Nehru Report (August 1928) → I. Sharda Act, i.e. the Child Marriage Restraint Act (1929) → IV. Dandi March (began 12 March 1930). So the correct chronological sequence is III, II, I, IV, which is option (a).

Why the other options are wrong — (b) Wrong — this places the Sharda Act (1929) first and the Simon Commission third, but the Simon Commission (1927) is the earliest of the four events.  (c) Wrong — this reverses the sequence, starting with the Dandi March (1930), which is actually the last of the four events.  (d) Wrong — jumbled: it puts the Sharda Act (1929) first and the Dandi March (1930) second, whereas the Simon Commission (1927) comes first and the Dandi March last.

Concept: A cluster of late-1920s freedom-struggle events. The all-British Simon Commission was constituted in 1927 to review the 1919 reforms and was boycotted with 'Simon Go Back'. The Nehru Report (1928), chaired by Motilal Nehru, was the Indians' own draft constitutional scheme. The Sharda Act (Child Marriage Restraint Act) of 1929 raised the minimum age of marriage. The Dandi March of 1930 launched the Civil Disobedience Movement (Salt Satyagraha).

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