Question

Arrange the following events in chronological order and choose the correct option:

I. Second Round Table Conference
II. Formation of Depressed Class Association
III. Lahore Session of Indian National Congress
IV. Formation of Awadh Kissan Sabha

• A. I, II, IV, III
• B. I, II, III, IV
• C. IV, III, II, I
• D. IV, III, I, II

Hint:

Fix the earliest event first. The Awadh peasant body belongs to the Non-Cooperation years, while the Round Table Conference came after the Gandhi Irwin Pact, so the list runs from 1920 to 1931.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is C

Concept:

• All four events belong to the national movement between 1920 and 1931, so each has to be given a year before they can be sorted.
• Two belong to the peasant and depressed class movements and two to the mainstream Congress programme.

Step 1: Date item IV, the Awadh Kisan Sabha.
Jawaharlal Nehru, Baba Ramchandra and a few others set up the Oudh Kisan Sabha in October 1920. Within a month it had over three hundred branches in the villages around the region.
This is the earliest of the four.

Step 2: Date item III, the Lahore session of the Congress.
The Lahore session met in December 1929 under the presidency of Jawaharlal Nehru and formalised the demand for Purna Swaraj, or full independence.

Step 3: Date item II, the Depressed Classes Association.
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar organised the dalits into the Depressed Classes Association in 1930.

Step 4: Date item I, the Second Round Table Conference.
Gandhiji went to London for the Second Round Table Conference in December 1931, after the Gandhi Irwin Pact of March that year.

Step 5: Sort the years.
1920 → 1929 → 1930 → 1931, which is IV → III → II → I. This matches option (C).

Final Answer: (C) IV, III, II, I