Question

Arrange the following events chronologically.

1. Quit India Resolution
2. Cripps’ Mission
3. Resignation of Congress Ministries
4. August Offer

Options

• (iii), (ii), (i) and (iv)

• (iii), (iv), (ii) and (i)

• (iv), (iii), (ii) and (i)

• (iii), (ii), (iv) and (i)

Answer 1

(iii), (iv), (ii) and (i)

Explanation:

• (iii) Resignation of Congress ministries, October–November 1939, when Congress ministries resigned after the Viceroy declared India at war with Germany without consulting the Congress.
• (iv) August Offer, Lord Linlithgow’s August Offer was made on 8 August 1940.
• (ii) Cripps’ Mission, the Cripps Mission (the 1942 mission that proposed Dominion status for India) came next and failed to win Congress support.
• (i) Quit India Resolution, adopted by the Congress Working Committee at Wardha (July 1942) and ratified on 8 August 1942, after which the Quit India Movement began.