Multiple choice

Which of the following factors shaped the course of events of 1940s?

  1. Persisting inflation
  2. Fall in imports of consumer goods from Britain
  3. Failure of British to pay for the Indian contribution to the defence expenditure during the Second World War

  1. Only 3

  2. Only 1 and 3

  3. All of these

  4. None of these
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C Correct answer
Explanation

In particular, it was the Second World War and its impact on the British Government and the Indian people which shaped the course of some of the events. Popular distress was due primarily to an inflation caused by the channelising of Indian products (agricultural as well as industrial) to meet military needs, and through a fall in imports of consumer goods (from Britain) to the Indian civilians. It was further accentuated by failure of the British to pay for the Indian contribution to the defence expenditure and the growing volume of their debt to India.

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