Consider the following statements with respect to the developments in the Princely States 1 An impor...........

Modern Indian History 1921-1932

Consider the following statements with respect to the developments in the Princely States:

1.An important development took place in 1921 when an organization was established to provide a common platform to the rulers of different states to discuss their problems, which was known as Indian States Committee.

2. The progress of the national movement in British India had no effect in Princely states, as the rulers of the Princely States were hostile to the national movement.

3. The Congress adopted a resolution at its Nagpur Session(1920) merging the movement of the Princely States with the national movement.

4.The Mountbatten Plan(3rd June Plan) did not provide the paramountcy to lapse for the Princely States.

Which of the above statements are correct?

1 and 2

2 and 3

1, 2,3 and 4

None of the above.

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Explanation:

•   Harcourt Butler Committee A three -member committee headed by Harcourt Butler, appointed on December 16, 1927 to examine the relations between the native states and the paramount power, declined to define what paramountcy was but clearly and fortrightly stated that “paramountcy must remain paramount”.
he Congress, for the first time at its Nagpur Session in 1920, enunciated its policy towards the peoples’ movement in the Princely States. It called upon the Princes to grant full responsible government in their States. However, it was pointed out that though the people belonging to the States could enroll themselves as members of the Congress, they could not initiate political activity in the State in the name of the Congress. They could carry on political activity in their individual capacity as members of the local Praja Mandals.
•   From the mid-20s, the Congress started taking keen interest in the states’ people’s movements. In 1929, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru in his presidential address of Lahore Congress observed, “The Indian States cannot live apart from the rest of India…. The only people who have a right to determine the future of the States must be the people of those States.”
•   The first session of an All India States’ People’s Conference was held in Bombay in December 1927. The Conference brought together representatives from hundreds of Indian princely states, including Baroda, Bhopal, Travancore and Hyderabad.
•   It was established to encourage political dialogue between the princely class of India, and the British Raj, upon the issues of governance, political stability and future of India. The Council and other people’s movement also struggled for the farmers loans, taxes etc in the princely states. Balwantrai Mehta, Maniklal Kothari and G.R. Abhayankar assumed the leadership of the movement.
•   In the Bombay session of All India Association of the People’s Council in 1927, the princely states national movement was made a national level movement. The Bombay session of the Council demanded the responsible government and rights of citizenship for the people of Princely States.