Question

Select the option that shows the correct relationship between Statements (I) and (II).

(I) Gandhiji withdrew the Civil Disobedience Movement.

(II) An unruly crowd burnt down a police station at Chauri-Chaura.

Options

• Both (I) and (II) are true, and (II) is the correct explanation of (I).

• Both (I) and (II) are true, but (II) is not the correct explanation of (I).

• (I) is true, but (II) is false.

• (I) is false, but (II) is true.

Answer 1

Both (I) and (II) are true, but (II) is not the correct explanation of (I).

Explanation:

Statement (I) is historically accurate because Mahatma Gandhi officially suspended and later withdrew the Civil Disobedience Movement in 1934 due to waning momentum and heavy colonial repression. Statement (II) is also independently true, as an angry mob famously set fire to a police station in Chauri-Chaura (Uttar Pradesh) in February 1922, killing 22 policemen. However, Statement (II) cannot be the correct explanation for Statement (I) because the violence at Chauri-Chaura led directly to the sudden withdrawal of the Non-Cooperation Movement in 1922, whereas the Civil Disobedience Movement was launched an entire decade later, beginning with the Dandi March in 1930.