Consider the following statements regarding the Noakhali riots that occurred during the partition of…
Consider the following statements regarding the Noakhali riots that occurred during the partition of India:
- AOnly 1
- BOnly 2
- CBoth 1 and 2
- DNeither 1 nor 2
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: D
Noakhali is in East Bengal (now Bangladesh), not Sindh, so statement 1 is wrong. Statement 2 is also wrong: it was Mahatma Gandhi who walked village to village in Noakhali to calm communal tensions, while Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, the 'Frontier Gandhi', worked in the North-West Frontier Province.