Daily Quiz: UPSC Prelims Marathon – March 25, 2019

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.

Bombay Manifesto 1936 was proposal A.D. Shroff which openly criticised the Nehru’s socialist ideas. Basically the manifesto sought a wide support base from Bombay Business Community. It hardly impacted the ideology of congress at pan India level.

The Simon Commission report submitted in 1930 became basis of GOI Act 1935. It provided a federal type of government introduced provincial autonomy, abolished of dyarchy at provincial level, making ministers responsible to legislative. However it was rejected this act, congress demanded convening of Constituent Assembly basis of adult of franchise. Nehru referred ‘it was new charter of slavery’. Though congress opposed the act yet it contested election.

In March 1947, Lord Mountbatten replaced Lord Wavell and came to India with plan of Balkanisation where India would divide into small states, however it was dropped. Mountbatten formula was to divide India but retain maximum satisfying both League and Congress.

Rajani Palme Dutt’s authoritative work ‘India Today’ made the myth of the safety-valve a staple of left-wing opinion. Emphasizing the myth, Dutt wrote that the Congress was brought into existence through direct Governmental initiative and guidance and through a plan secretly pre-arranged with the Viceroy„ so that it (the Government) could use it as an intended weapon for safeguarding British rule against the rising forces of popular unrest and anti-British feeling.„ It was an attempt to defeat, or rather forestall, an impending revolution.

All the above statements are correct: THE PALA SCHOOL (11th to 12th centuries) The earliest examples of miniature painting in India exist in the form of illustrations to the religious texts on Buddhism executed under the Palas of the eastern India and the Jain texts executed in western India during the 11th-12th centuries A.D. The Pala period (750 A.D. to the middle of the 12th century) witnessed the last great phase of Buddhism and of the Buddhist art in India. The Buddhist monasteries (mahaviharas) of Nalanda, Odantapuri,Vikramsila and Somarupa were great centres of Buddhist learning and art. The Pala painting is characterised by sinuous line and subdued tones of colour. It is a naturalistic style which resembles the ideal forms of contemporary bronze and stone sculpture, and reflects some feeling of the classical art of Ajanta. The Pala art came to a sudden end after the destruction of the Buddhist monasteries at the hands of Muslim invaders in the first half of the 13th century. Some of the monks and artists escaped and fled to Nepal, which helped in reinforcing the existing art traditions there.