Previous Year Question
In the context of Colonial India, Shah Nawaz Khan, Prem Kumar Sehgal and Gurbaksh Singh Dhillon are remembered as
Correct Answer: D
Detailed Solution
Shah Nawaz Khan, Prem Kumar Sehgal and Gurbaksh Singh Dhillon were senior officers of the Indian National Army led by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.
After the Second World War, the British Government jointly tried the three officers at Delhi’s Red Fort in November 1945. The principal charge against them was waging war against the British King-Emperor. The trial generated widespread support for the Indian National Army and nationalist public agitation throughout the country.
Option (a) is incorrect—the Swadeshi and Boycott Movement was mainly associated with the Partition of Bengal in 1905; the three officers are not remembered as its leaders.
Options (b) and (c) are incorrect—none of them was a member of the Interim Government of 1946 or the Drafting Committee of the Constituent Assembly.