Multiple choice

The second session of the Round Table Conference broke down on the question of

  1. Separate electorates for the minorities

  2. Gandhiji's fast unto death

  3. Government's unwillingness to release all political prisoners

  4. Gandhiji not being treated on equal terms with the representatives of the King Emperor
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Explanation

During the Conference, Gandhi could not reach agreement with the Muslims on Muslim representation and safeguards. At the end of the conference Ramsay MacDonald undertook to produce a Communal Award for minority representation, with the provision that any free agreement between the parties could be substituted for his award. Gandhiji took particular exception to the treatment of untouchables as a minority separate from the rest of the Hindu community. He clashed with the Untouchable leader, B. R. Ambedkar, over this issue: the two eventually resolved the situation with the Poona Pact of 1932. 

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