HISTORY
MODERN INDIA
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Ramsay Mcdonald
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Lloyd George
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Stanley Baldwin
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A V Alexander
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Communal Award was created by the British prime minister Ramsay MacDonald on 16 August 1932. Also known as the MacDonald Award, it was announced after the Round Table Conference (1930–32) and extended the separate electorate to depressed Classes (now known as the Scheduled Caste) and other minorities.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Poona Pact was accepted by the government as an amendment to the Communal Award.
Detailed explanation-3: -Background of the Poona Pact On August 16, 1932, the British Prime Minister, Ramsay MacDonald, announced the Communal Award which provided for separate electorates for the ‘Depressed Classes’, the Muslims, the Europeans, the Sikhs, the Anglo-Indians and the Indian-based Christians.
Detailed explanation-4: -Indian history and the British raj Prime Minister MacDonald announced his Communal Award, Great Britain’s unilateral attempt to resolve the various conflicts among India’s many communal interests.
Detailed explanation-5: -The correct answer is Option 3. On 16th September 1932, Mahatma Gandhi began ‘fast up to death’ to protest British support of a new Indian constitution which favoured separate the Indian electorate by caste.