Static Quiz 27 July 2026 (History)

Option (b) is correct — Gandhi left Sabarmati with 78 chosen volunteers on 12 March 1930, covering about 241 miles over 24 days, arriving at Dandi on 5 April and breaking the salt law on 6 April 1930. Option (a) is wrong — it conflates the arrival date with the law-breaking date and uses the wrong volunteer count. Option (c) is wrong — the volunteer count is correct, but 5 April was the arrival date, not the salt-breaking date. Option (d) is wrong — 82 volunteers is fabricated, paired with the correct date to create a plausible but incorrect option.

Option (b) is correct — the First RTC (1930–31) proceeded without the INC, as Civil Disobedience was ongoing. Gandhi attended the Second RTC (1931) as the sole INC representative following the Gandhi-Irwin Pact, which collapsed over the communal representation question. The Third RTC (1932) was boycotted by the INC; its deliberations produced a 1933 White Paper forming the basis of the Government of India Act, 1935. Option (a) is wrong — the INC did not participate in the First RTC. Option (c) is wrong — Gandhi attended the Second, not First, RTC, and the Communal Award (August 1932) was announced independently, not as the Third RTC's outcome. Option (d) is wrong — Gandhi attended the Second RTC alone; Nehru was not present, and the Poona Pact was a consequence of the Communal Award, not a Third RTC outcome.

The correct sequence is the Gandhi-Irwin Pact (March 1931, suspending CDM) → the Second Round Table Conference (September–December 1931, Gandhi attends) → the resumption of CDM (January 1932, after Gandhi's return, the pact effectively dead) → the Communal Award (August 1932, announcing separate electorates) → the Poona Pact (September 1932, the Gandhi-Ambedkar agreement replacing separate electorates). Option (b) impossibly places the Second RTC before the Gandhi-Irwin Pact, which was the actual condition for INC participation. Option (c) wrongly places the Communal Award before CDM's resumption. Option (d) wrongly places CDM's resumption before the Gandhi-Irwin Pact, implying CDM never stopped.

Option (a) is correct — the Poona Pact replaced separate electorates with reserved seats within joint electorates, while increasing the reserved allocation from 71 seats (under the Communal Award) to 148 seats, Ambedkar's compensation for accepting joint electorates. Option (b) is wrong — the Pact abolished separate electorates, its defining feature, not retained them. Option (c) is wrong — the Communal Award was never withdrawn; only the representation method changed through the bilateral Pact. Option (d) is wrong — the Pact provided for reserved seats in both provincial and central legislatures, not central alone.

Option (d) is correct — Nehru did not participate, as the INC boycotted the First RTC entirely while Civil Disobedience was at its peak and Congress leaders were jailed or committed to non-cooperation. Option (a) is wrong — Ambedkar attended as a representative of the Depressed Classes, the start of his direct engagement in constitutional negotiations. Option (b) is wrong — Jinnah attended as a Muslim League representative. Option (c) is wrong — Tej Bahadur Sapru, the liberal jurist, attended and actively tried to broker communal-representation agreements.