Consider the following statements regarding the Noakhali riots that occurred during the partition of India:
- Noakhali is a town located in the Sindh province of undivided India, which witnessed severe communal violence in 1946-47.
- 'Frontier Gandhi' Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan played a pivotal role in walking through the affected villages to pacify the communal sentiments of the people.
Which of the above statement(s) is/are correct?
Correct answer: D
Explanation
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.