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The Cabinet Mission of March 1946 recommended what kind of structure for India?Read the answer and worked solution →After the Cabinet Mission failed, who besides Gandhi continued to firmly oppose Partition?Read the answer and worked solution →The League declared which date as Direct Action Day in 1946?Read the answer and worked solution →In March 1947 the Congress high command voted to divide which province into two halves?Read the answer and worked solution →Which administrator in Bahawalpur noted that police fired no shot during the Amritsar killings of March 1947?Read the answer and worked solution →Gandhi toured villages on foot in October 1946 to protect Hindus in which area of East Bengal?Read the answer and worked solution →About how many abducted women were recovered by the two governments in an operation ending in 1954?Read the answer and worked solution →In which village of Rawalpindi district did ninety Sikh women jump into a well during Partition?Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the Pakistan lettersRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the Partition yearsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the numbersRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the Partition opponentsRead the answer and worked solution →League or CongressRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the sectionsRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Partition bingoRead the answer and worked solution →The Permanent Settlement of Bengal came into operation in which year?Read the answer and worked solution →At the 1797 Burdwan auction, what share of the sales turned out to be fictitious?Read the answer and worked solution →Under the Permanent Settlement, who were classified as zamindars?Read the answer and worked solution →Under which law could a zamindari be auctioned if payment did not arrive by sunset of the due date?Read the answer and worked solution →Francis Buchanan's survey of which North Bengal district describes the rich peasants called jotedars?Read the answer and worked solution →Sharecroppers who worked jotedar land and gave half the produce were called:Read the answer and worked solution →A transaction made in the name of a fictitious person while the real beneficiary stays hidden is called:Read the answer and worked solution →The Fifth Report on the East India Company was submitted to Parliament in which year?Read the answer and worked solution →Francis Buchanan is often called Buchanan-Hamilton. Why?Read the answer and worked solution →The hill folk of the Rajmahal hills who practised shifting cultivation were the:Read the answer and worked solution →Which Collector of Bhagalpur proposed a policy of pacification of the Paharias in the 1780s?Read the answer and worked solution →The area demarcated in 1832 as the land of the Santhals was called:Read the answer and worked solution →Santhal villages in Damin-i-Koh grew from 40 in 1838 to how many by 1851?Read the answer and worked solution →Santhals called the moneylenders who took over their land by which name?Read the answer and worked solution →

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The Cabinet Mission of March 1946 recommended what kind of structure for India?

  1. Loose three-tier confederation
  2. Strong unitary state at Delhi
  3. Two fully sovereign nations
  4. A dominion under the King
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Correct answer: A. Loose three-tier confederation

1. The Centre would control only foreign affairs, defence and communications. 2. Provinces would be grouped in Sections A, B and C. 3. Both parties later rejected it. _Source: syllabus Themes in Indian History Part III, Theme 14, Understanding Partition: Politics, Memories, Experiences._

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After the Cabinet Mission failed, who besides Gandhi continued to firmly oppose Partition?

  1. Dr Rajendra Prasad
  2. Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
  3. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
  4. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
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Correct answer: B. Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

1. Most Congress leaders saw Partition as unavoidable. 2. Ghaffar Khan of the NWFP stood with Gandhi. 3. He was known as Frontier Gandhi. _Source: syllabus Themes in Indian History Part III, Theme 14, Understanding Partition: Politics, Memories, Experiences._

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The League declared which date as Direct Action Day in 1946?

  1. 15 August
  2. 9 September
  3. 16 August
  4. 23 March
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Correct answer: C. 16 August

1. Riots broke out in Calcutta. 2. Direct Action Day was 16 August 1946. 3. Violence spread to north India by March 1947. _Source: syllabus Themes in Indian History Part III, Theme 14, Understanding Partition: Politics, Memories, Experiences._

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