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Which of the following statements is/are true?

(A) After the Nagpur Session (1920) of Congress, the provincial Congress Committees were constituted on a linguistic basis.

(B) In 1948, Congress rejected the demand of formation of provinces on linguistic basis.

Select the correct answer from the code below:


1. Only (A)
2. Only (B)
3. Neither (A) nor (B)
4. Both (A) & (B)

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Correct Answer - Option 4 : Both (A) & (B)

The correct answer is Both (A) & (B).

  • After the Nagpur Session (1920) of Congress, the provincial Congress Committees were constituted on a linguistic basis.

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  • In 1920, two sessions of Congress were held:
    • 1920 (Special Session): Calcutta.
      • President: Lala Lajpat Rai
      • Mahatma Gandhi moved the Non-cooperation resolution
    • 1920: Nagpur. 
      • President: C. Vijayaraghavachariar
      • Reconstitution of Working committees of Congress on Linguistic basis. Hence the statement A is correct.
      • MA Jinnah left the Indian National Congress

  • Nagpur Session (1920) of Congress
    • S​ignificance of the Congress session at Nagpur in December 1920 
      • On 1 August 1920, Non-Cooperation Movement was announced.
      • The Movement started with strikes and processions all over India.
      • On 4 September 1920, Congress met at Calcutta in a special session.
      • This special session was presided by Lala Lajpat Rai. 
      • In this session, Gandhi wrongly predicted that if the Non-cooperation movement gets successful, Swaraj could be attained in one year.
      • This was immediately discarded by CR Das.
      • In December 1920, Congress met once again in the Nagpur Session to solve the deadlock over Calcutta session.
      • This time the disagreements of CR das had melted away.
      • A resolution was passed in favour of Non-cooperation. 
      • A reconstitution for the reorganisation of Working committees of Congress on Linguistic basis was also passed here.
  • Reorganization of states
    • In 1948, the government appointed a commission under S K Dhar, a judge of the Allahabad High Court, to examine the case for the reorganization of states on the linguistic basis.
    • It favoured reorganization on the basis of administrative convenience rather than linguistic considerations.
    • The committee submitted the report on April 1949, dismissed the idea of reorganization on a linguistic basis. So statement B is correct.

  • States Reorganisation Commission
    • ​SK Dhar commission
      • In June 1948, Rajendra Prasad set up the Linguistic Provinces Commission (Dhar Commission) to recommend whether the states should be reorganised on the linguistic basis or not.
      • The committee included SK Dhar (retired Judge of the Allahabad High Court), Jagat Narain Lal (lawyer and member of constituent assembly) and Panna Lall (retired Indian Civil Service officer).
      • In its report, the Commission recommended that "the formation of provinces on exclusively or even mainly linguistic considerations is not in the larger interests of the Indian nation''.

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