Daily Quiz: UPSC Prelims Marathon – April 30, 2018

Congress wanted zamindari abolition but could not do it due to reasons mentioned above except d.

The federal part of the Act and Dyarchy at the centre were never introduced but the provincial part was soon put into operation. Provincial autonomy and Legislature came into effect from 1937. Federal court in 1937. The first elections for provinces under the act were held in 1937.

For the implementation of All India Federation, consent of half of the princely states was required which never happened.

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1. C. Rajagoplachari : Tamilnadu from  Trichinopoly to Vedaranniyam on the Tanjore coast.
2. K. Kelappan : Malabar the hero of the Vaikom Satyagraha, walked from Calicut to Payannur to break the salt law in Malabar, modern day Kerla
3. Khan Abdul Gaafar Khan : North west Frotier Province lead a band of non-violent revolutionaries, the Khudai Khidmatgars, popularly known as the Red Shirts. They played an extremely active role in the Civil Disobedience Movement in Peshawar area.

August Offer 1940, Cripps Mission (March 1942), Wavell Plan – 1945, Cabinet Mission – 1946

The  principle of dyarchy was a division of government into authoritarian and popularly responsible sections, named as reserved and transferred subjects respectively.

The reserved subjects came under the heading of law and order and included justice, the police, land revenue, and irrigation. The transferred subjects (i.e., those under the control of Indian ministers) included local self-government, education, public health, public works, and agriculture, forests, and fisheries.

Statement 2 and 3 are correct

The Indian National Army trials (INA trials) took place in Red Fort for

Courts-martial of a number of officers of the Indian National Army (INA) between November 1945 and May 1946, for charges variously for treason, murder etc.

The Mass Support movement for the soldiers marked the last major campaign in which the forces of the Congress and the Muslim League aligned together;

The Congress tricolour and the green flag of the League were flown together at protests.

The Self-Respect Movement is a movement with the aim of achieving a society where backward castes have equal human rights, and encouraging backward castes to have self-respect in the context of a caste-based society that considered them to be a lower end of the hierarchy. It was founded in 1925 by S.Ramanathan as a Non brahman movement who invited E. V. Ramasamy (also called as Periyar by his devoted followers) to head the movement in Tamil Nadu.