UPSC Prelims 2014 · Question 22 of 100
UPSC Prelims 2014 question on Lahore Congress Poorna Swaraj
- ExamUPSC CSE
- Year2014
- PaperGeneral Studies Paper I
- SubjectModern History
- TopicIndian National Movement
- DifficultyEasy
- TypeDirect
The 1929 Session of Indian National Congress is of significance in the history of the Freedom Movement because the
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Answer: B. attainment of Poorna Swaraj was adopted as the goal of the Congress.
Verdict
The answer is that Poorna Swaraj was adopted as the goal of the Congress. The 1929 Lahore session made complete independence, not dominion status, the declared objective.
Analysis
At Lahore in December 1929, under the presidency of Jawaharlal Nehru, the Congress resolved on Poorna Swaraj and fixed 26 January 1930 as the day to be observed as Independence Day. Self government or dominion status was the older formulation and had been the demand of earlier years, so the first option describes the position Lahore superseded. Non Cooperation was launched in 1920, nine years earlier. The decision to participate in the Round Table Conference came later, through the Gandhi Irwin Pact of 1931.
Source
Modern India, old NCERT Class XII by Bipan Chandra.
How to crack it
Congress session questions almost always test one session to one resolution. Build a short table of the sessions UPSC actually asks about: Calcutta 1906 for swaraj, Surat 1907 for the split, Lucknow 1916 for the pact, Nagpur 1920, Lahore 1929 for Poorna Swaraj, Karachi 1931 for fundamental rights, Tripuri 1939. Six lines cover a decade of questions.