- Mutiny in Royal Indian Navy
- Quit India Movement launched
- Second Round Table Conference
What is the correct chronological sequence of the above events?
(a) 1-2-3
(b) 2-1-3
(c) 3-2-1
(d) 3-1-2
Answer: (c)
Option (c) is correct: The Second Round Table Conference was held in London in December 1931. The Congress had agreed to attend the second-round table conference under the Delhi pact, and hence Mahatma Gandhi attended the second-round table conference in London. The purpose of the conference was to discuss the Constitutional reforms of India. However, it failed to reach an agreement, either constitutionally or on communal representation. The session got a standstill on the question of the minorities. All minorities came together in a “Minorities’ Pact”. On 8th August 1942, Mahatma Gandhi gave a blaring call to end British rule and launched the Quit India Movement at the session of the All-India Congress Committee in Mumbai. The immediate cause for the movement was the collapse of Cripps Mission. Gandhi gave the call “Do or Die” in his speech delivered at the Gowalia Tank Maidan, now popularly known as August Kranti Maidan. The slogan ‘Quit India’ was coined by Yusuf Meherally, a socialist and trade unionist who also served as Mayor of Mumbai. The Junior Commissioned Officers (JCOs) and Non-Commissioned Officers (NCOs) had faced many hardships during the Second World War, and when the war was coming to an end, the ratings were left with no certainty about their jobs, so they revolted against it on February 18, 1946, which came to be known as The Royal Indian Navy (RIN) uprising.
