Previous Year Question

Pair (d) is not correctly matched because the Communal Award was announced not in 1933, but in 1932.

Pair (a) is correct. Its formal title was the Government of India (Indian Navy) Act, 1927. The legislation was intended to amend the Government of India Act so as to provide a legal basis for facilitating the creation of naval forces for India. British legislative records clearly identify it as an Act of 1927.

Pair (b) is also correct. The Civil Disobedience Movement began in 1930. Gandhiji started the Dandi March from Sabarmati Ashram on 12 March 1930 and broke the salt law on 6 April. The Salt Satyagraha soon became the symbol of the wider Civil Disobedience Movement.

Pair (c) is also correct. The Second Round Table Conference was held in London in 1931. Gandhiji participated in it as the representative of the Indian National Congress. Questions concerning the future constitutional structure of India and minority representation were among the major issues discussed.

However, pair (d) is incorrect. British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald announced the Communal Award on 16 August 1932. It contained provisions relating to political representation and separate electorates for different communities.

The Award also provided separate political representation for the Depressed Classes. Gandhiji opposed this provision, and the subsequent agreement involving Dr. B. R. Ambedkar and other leaders in September 1932 resulted in the Poona Pact.