Q. With reference to Indian freedom struggle, consider the following events:

  1. Mutiny in Royal Indian Navy
  2. Quit India Movement launched
  3. Second Round Table Conference

What is the correct chronological sequence of the above events?

  • 1-2-3
  • 2-1-3
  • 3-2-1
  • 3-1-2

Answer: (c) 3-2-1

Notes:

Second Round Conference

  • The Second Round Conference opened in September 1931.
  • Gandhi represented the Indian National Congress and Sarojini Naidu represented Indian women. 
  • Madan Mohan Malaviya, Ghanshyam Das Birla, Muhammad Iqbal, Sir Mirza Ismail Diwan of Mysore, S K Dutta and Sir Syed Ali Imam were other people that attending the conference.

Quit India Movement

  • The Quit India Movement, or August revolution (August Kranti), was launched at the Bombay session of the All-India Congress Committee or more simply by Gandhiji (Mahatma Gandhi) on 8 August 1942, during World War II, demanding an end to British Rule of India.

Royal Indian Navy Mutiny

  • On February 18, 1946, a section of non-commissioned officers and sailors known as Ratings, serving in the Royal Indian Navy, mutinied against the British Officers.
  • The mutiny started as a strike by the ratings to protest against the hardship regarding pay, food and racial discrimination.