From the free UGC NET History Mock Test 7 — Unit 7: Sources of Modern Indian History unit-wise mock test — real question, real answer, real explanation.
The Inchcape Committee (1923) was appointed by the British administration to recommend measures for:
Retrenchment and reduction of public expenditure ✓
Constitutional developments
Higher education funding
Frontier defense lines
The Inchcape Committee recommended sweeping retrenchment (expenditure cuts) in the early 1920s, reflecting post-WWI financial pressures on the colonial government — a purely fiscal/administrative commission distinct from the political/constitutional commissions of the same era.
Whitley Commission (Royal Commission on Labour, 1929) investigated:
Existing conditions of labor in industrial undertakings and plantations in British India ✓
Agricultural peasantry debt
Landless tenancy rights
Factory owner profits
The Whitley Commission (Royal Commission on Labour) investigated actual industrial and plantation labor conditions in British India in 1929 — its findings fed into subsequent labor legislation debates, part of a broader interwar-period concern with industrial working conditions.
The Sapru Committee Report (1945) primarily examined:
Constitutional proposals and minority rights protection ✓
Financial distribution between Center and Provinces
Post-war industrial development plan
Land tenure modifications
The Sapru Committee (1945) examined constitutional proposals and minority-rights safeguards in the final, tense years before independence — reflecting the urgent unresolved questions about India's future constitutional structure and communal representation just before Partition.
Who wrote the classic autobiography The Story of My Experiments with Truth originally in Gujarati?
Mahatma Gandhi ✓
Jawaharlal Nehru
Subhas Chandra Bose
Rajendra Prasad
Gandhi wrote his autobiography in Gujarati (later translated into English) as The Story of My Experiments with Truth, tracing his personal, moral, and political development — one of the single most important primary sources for understanding his own self-conception and philosophy.
An Indian Pilgrim is the incomplete autobiography written by which charismatic leader?
Subhas Chandra Bose ✓
Jawaharlal Nehru
Bhagat Singh
C.R. Das
Subhas Chandra Bose's An Indian Pilgrim remained incomplete, covering only his early life — a partial but valuable primary source for understanding the formative influences behind his later, more radical political trajectory.
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Itihaaskar — UGC NET/JRF & UPSC History Optional notes by Parveen Malik (B.Tech. (CSE), M.A. (History), History JRF). Also spelt Itihaskar.
