Read the following passage and answer the
Question Nos. 1 to 6:
The decisive shift in
British Policy really came about under mass pressure in the autumn and winter
of 1945 to 46 – the months which Perderel Moon while editing Wavell’s Journal
has perceptively described as ‘The Edge of a Volcano’. Very foolishly, the
British initially decided to hold public trials of several hundreds of the
20,000 I.N.A. prisoners (as well as dismissing from service and detaining
without trial no less than 7,000). They compounded the folly by holding the
first trial in the Red Fort, Delhi in November 1945, and putting on the dock
together a Hindu, a Muslim and a Sikh (P.K. Sehgal, Shah Nawaz, Gurbaksh Singh
Dhillon). Bhulabhai Desai, Tejbahadur Sapru and Nehru appeared for the defence
(the latter putting on his barrister’s gown after 25 years), and the Muslim
League also joined the countrywide protest. On 20 November, an Intelligence
Bureau note admitted that “there has seldom been a matter which has attracted
so much Indian public interest and, it is safe to say, sympathy … this
particular brand of sympathy cuts across communal barriers.’ A journalist (B.
Shiva Rao) visiting the Red Fort prisoners on the same day reported that ‘There
is not the slightest feeling among them of Hindu and Muslim … A majority of the
men now awaiting trial in the Red Fort is Muslim. Some of these men are bitter
that Mr. Jinnah is keeping alive a controversy about Pakistan.’ The British
became extremely nervous about the I.N.A. spirit spreading to the Indian Army,
and in January the Punjab Governor reported that a Lahore reception for
released I.N.A. prisoners had been attended by Indian soldiers in uniform.
1. Which heading is more
appropriate to assign to the above passage?
(A) Wavell’s Journal
(B) Role of Muslim
League
(C) I.N.A. Trials
(D) Red Fort Prisoners
2. The trial of P.K.
Sehgal, Shah Nawaz and Gurbaksh Singh Dhillon symbolises
(A) communal harmony
(B) threat to all
religious persons
(C) threat to persons
fighting for the freedom
(D) British reaction
against the natives
3. I.N.A. stands for
(A) Indian National
Assembly
(B) Indian National
Association
(C) Inter-national
Association
(D) Indian National Army
4. ‘There has seldom been a matter which has
attracted so much Indian Public Interest and, it is safe to say, sympathy …
this particular brand of sympathy cuts across communal barriers.’
Who sympathises to whom and against whom?
(A) Muslims sympathised with Shah Nawaz against
the British
(B) Hindus sympathised with P.K. Sehgal against
the British
(C) Sikhs sympathised with Gurbaksh Singh
Dhillon against the British
(D) Indians sympathised with
the persons who were to be trialled
5. The majority of people waiting for trial
outside the Red Fort and criticising Jinnah were the
(A) Hindus
(B) Muslims
(C) Sikhs
(D) Hindus and Muslims both
6. The sympathy of Indian soldiers in uniform
with the released I.N.A. prisoners at Lahore indicates
(A) Feeling of
Nationalism and Fraternity
(B) Rebellious nature of
Indian soldiers
(C) Simply to
participate in the reception party
(D) None of the above
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