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1906 - Muslim Political Awakening - Muslim League
The Muslim League initially accepted the Cabinet Mission Plan in:
A. June 1946
B. August 1946
C. March 1940
D. June 1947
Correct Answer: A
The League Council accepted the Plan in June 1946 because compulsory grouping appeared to protect Muslim-majority zones.
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Bengal and Assam were placed in Cabinet Mission Group:
A. A
B. B
C. C
D. D
Correct Answer: C
The Mission grouped Bengal and Assam together as Group C.
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1906 - Muslim Political Awakening - Muslim League
The Muslim-majority north-western provinces were mainly placed in Cabinet Mission Group:
A. A
B. B
C. C
D. D
Correct Answer: B
Group B included Punjab, NWFP, Sindh and British Baluchistan.
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The Cabinet Mission Plan proposed grouping British Indian provinces into:
A. Two groups
B. Three groups
C. Four groups
D. No groups
Correct Answer: B
Group A mainly contained Hindu-majority provinces, while Groups B and C contained major Muslim-majority areas.
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Under the Cabinet Mission Plan, the proposed Union centre would control:
A. All provincial subjects
B. Defence, foreign affairs and communications
C. Education and agriculture only
D. Police and land revenue only
Correct Answer: B
The centre was deliberately limited, while most powers remained with provinces and provincial groups.
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1906 - Muslim Political Awakening - Muslim League
Which of the following was a member of the Cabinet Mission?
A. Sir Stafford Cripps
B. Lord Curzon
C. Lord Minto
D. Sir John Simon
Correct Answer: A
The Mission consisted of Lord Pethick-Lawrence, Sir Stafford Cripps and A.V. Alexander.
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1906 - Muslim Political Awakening - Muslim League
The Cabinet Mission came to India in:
A. 1942
B. 1945
C. 1946
D. 1947
Correct Answer: C
The British Cabinet Mission arrived in 1946 to propose a constitutional transfer of power while trying to preserve an Indian union.
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1906 - Muslim Political Awakening - Muslim League
At the 1946 Delhi Legislators' Convention, the Pakistan demand was clarified as a demand for:
A. A sovereign independent state
B. A unitary all-India government
C. British rule without change
D. Only separate electorates
Correct Answer: A
The convention reformulated the demand in the singular and called for a sovereign independent state comprising Muslim-majority regions.
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1906 - Muslim Political Awakening - Muslim League
The Convention of Muslim League Legislators was held in Delhi in:
A. March 1940
B. April 1946
C. June 1947
D. December 1906
Correct Answer: B
Muslim members elected to the central and provincial legislatures met in Delhi on 7–9 April 1946.
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1906 - Muslim Political Awakening - Muslim League
The principal campaign issue for the Muslim League in the 1945–46 elections was:
A. The demand for Pakistan
B. Restoration of Bengal partition only
C. Support for a unitary constitution
D. Abolition of Muslim electorates
Correct Answer: A
The League sought a direct electoral mandate for its Pakistan program.
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A commonly cited result for the Muslim League in the 1946 provincial elections is:
A. 109 of 482 Muslim seats
B. 425 of 496 Muslim seats
C. 30 of 300 Muslim seats
D. 496 of 496 total seats
Correct Answer: B
The League won about 425 of the 496 seats reserved for Muslims in the provincial assemblies.
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The Muslim League's success in the 1945–46 elections was politically important because it:
A. Weakened its claim to represent Muslims
B. Confirmed its mass mandate among Muslim electorates
C. Ended the Pakistan demand
D. Made Congress a Muslim party
Correct Answer: B
The results allowed Jinnah to argue that the League spoke for the great majority of politically represented Indian Muslims.
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1906 - Muslim Political Awakening - Muslim League
In the 1945 elections to the Central Legislative Assembly, the Muslim League won:
A. All 30 Muslim seats
B. Half of the Muslim seats
C. No Muslim seats
D. All general seats
Correct Answer: A
The League won all Muslim-reserved seats in the Central Legislative Assembly, demonstrating overwhelming electoral support among Muslim voters.
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The failure of the Simla Conference strengthened the League's claim that:
A. Congress represented all Muslims
B. It alone represented organized Muslim political opinion
C. Provincial autonomy was unnecessary
D. Separate electorates should end
Correct Answer: B
The dispute centered on whether Congress could nominate a Muslim, reinforcing the League's representative claim.
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At the Simla Conference, the League insisted that Muslim members of the Executive Council should be nominated by:
A. Congress alone
B. The Muslim League
C. British provincial governors only
D. The princely states
Correct Answer: B
The League claimed to be the sole representative of Indian Muslims and demanded the right to nominate all Muslim members.
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The Simla Conference of 1945 was convened by:
A. Lord Wavell
B. Lord Mountbatten
C. Lord Minto
D. Lord Curzon
Correct Answer: A
Viceroy Lord Wavell called Indian leaders to Simla to discuss reconstituting the Executive Council.
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1906 - Muslim Political Awakening - Muslim League
A major reason the Gandhi–Jinnah talks failed was disagreement over:
A. The principle, timing and method of creating Pakistan
B. The location of Simla
C. Membership of the Simon Commission
D. The 1909 reforms
Correct Answer: A
Jinnah sought prior recognition of Muslims as a nation and the Pakistan principle, while Gandhi's approach differed on procedure and sovereignty.
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The Gandhi–Jinnah talks were closely associated with the proposals of:
A. C. Rajagopalachari
B. Lord Curzon
C. Sir John Simon
D. Clement Attlee
Correct Answer: A
The C.R. Formula attempted to provide a basis for agreement on self-determination in Muslim-majority areas.
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1906 - Muslim Political Awakening - Muslim League
The Gandhi–Jinnah talks were held in:
A. 1937
B. 1940
C. 1944
D. 1946
Correct Answer: C
Gandhi and Jinnah met in Bombay in September 1944 to discuss a possible settlement.
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1906 - Muslim Political Awakening - Muslim League
During the Second World War, the League's relative political strength increased partly because:
A. Congress leadership was imprisoned after Quit India
B. Separate electorates were abolished
C. The League dissolved itself
D. Jinnah left politics permanently
Correct Answer: A
The suppression of Congress after 1942 gave the League more organizational space to expand and present its program.