Civil Services Prep

Prelims MCQ · Modern History and the Freedom Struggle

Which one of the following most directly explains the nearly unanimous Indian opposition to the Simon Commission?

  1. It was appointed before the Government of India Act, 1919 came into operation.
  2. It excluded Indians and allowed foreigners to judge India’s fitness for self-government.
  3. It had already recommended the indefinite continuation of separate electorates before arriving in India.
  4. It rejected provincial autonomy and proposed the continuation of dyarchy in the provinces.
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  5. Although Bahadur Shah Zafar was the symbolic leader at Delhi, effective command was exercised by
  6. Although most Provincial Congress Committees opposed Jawaharlal Nehru’s nomination, Gandhi supported him for…