Question

Find out the incorrect statements given below regarding the communal award of 1932:

1.A certain number of seats were allotted to Muslims, Europeans, Sikhs, depressed Classes and members of these communities were to vote in separate constituencies.

2.Protesting against communal award Gandhiji undertook a fast unto death in the Yerwada Jail

• A. 1 only
• B. 2 only
• C. Both 1 and 2
• D. Neither 1 nor 2

Answer 1

Answer:

D. Neither 1 nor 2

On August 16, 1932, the British Prime Minister, Ramsay MacDonald, announced the Communal Award which provided for separate electorates for the ‘Depressed Classes’, the Muslims, the Europeans, the Sikhs, the Anglo-Indians and the Indian-based Christians.Mahatma Gandhi was bitterly opposed to the communal award, as the award in continuum of constant efforts of the British imperialists to divide Indian people into a number of special-interest groups and to weaken the national movement.Protesting against communal award Gandhiji undertook a fast unto death in the Yerwada Jail