Practice Test

Consider the following statements:
1. The All India Muslim League was founded by the All India Muhammadan Educational Conference at Dhaka (now Bangladesh), in 1906, in the context of the circumstances that were generated over the partition of Bengal in 1905.
2. Being a political party to secure the interests of the Muslim diaspora in British India, the Muslim League played a decisive role during the 1940s in the Indian independence movement and developed into the driving force behind the creation of Pakistan in the Indian subcontinent.
3. But when Muslim league passed Pakistan resolution based on Two Nation theory of Jinnah, Nationalist leaders like Maulana Azad and others stood against it.
4. All-India Jamhur Muslim League was formed parellal to Muslim League with Raja of Mahmoodabad (a close associate of Jinnah) as its president and Dr.Maghfoor Ahmad Ajazi its general secretary.
Select the answer using the codes given below-

The Indians decided to boycott the Simon commission appointed to look into working of the reforms introduced under the Act of 1919 because -
1) in intended to provide communal representation to the untouchables.
2) it denied the congress the right to nominate a muslim as a representative on the commission.
3) it did not include any Indians as its member.
4) it accorded greater representation to the muslims that their numerical strength warranted in muslim minority areas.
Which of these statements is/are correct?

Consider the following statement:
“I have travelled across the length and breadth of India and I have not seen one person who is a beggar, who is a thief. Such wealth I have seen in this country, such high moral values, people of such calibre that I do not think we would ever conquer this country, unless we break the very backbone of this nation, which is her spiritual and cultural heritage, and therefore, I propose that we replace her old and ancient education system, her culture, for if the Indians think that all that is foreign and English is good and greater than their own, they will lose their self-esteem, their native culture and they will become what we want them, a truly.”
Who gave this statement on which the present system of education is also based: