INDIAN HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The August Offer was an offer made by Viceroy Linlithgow in 1940 promising the expansion of the Executive Council of the Viceroy of India to include more Indians. Hence, statement (i) is incorrect. It proposed: Dominion status as the objective for India.

Detailed explanation-2: -Dominion status was the objective for India. The Viceroy’s Executive Council would be expanded right away to include for the first time more Indians than whites. However, defence, finance and home portfolios were to remain with the British. An advisory war council was to be established.

Detailed explanation-3: -1) The Viceroy, Lord Irwin announced in October 1929, a vague offer of “dominion status” for India, in a unspecified future.

Detailed explanation-4: -Before this, Irwin, the Viceroy, had announced in October 1929 a vague offer of ‘dominion status’ for India in an unspecified future and a Round Table Conference to discuss a future constitution. The Second Round Table Conference was held from September to December 1931 in London.