UGC NET History Practice Question

The Linlithgow Commission (Royal Commission on Agriculture, 1926) was tasked with examining:

Rural economy and agricultural development in India ✓

Famine relief funds distribution

Land revenue settlement terms

Irrigation canal privatization

The Linlithgow Commission conducted a comprehensive examination of India's rural economy and agricultural conditions in 1926 — one of the most detailed official surveys of Indian agriculture undertaken during the colonial period.

The primary source document titled Nehru Report (1928) was drafted under the chairmanship of:

Motilal Nehru ✓

Jawaharlal Nehru

Tej Bahadur Sapru

Subhas Chandra Bose

Motilal Nehru chaired the committee that produced the 1928 Nehru Report, India's first major attempt at drafting a constitution by Indians themselves, in response to the British challenge (following the Simon Commission boycott) to produce an agreed Indian alternative.

The Floud Commission (1938-40) in Bengal recommended the abolition of the Permanent Settlement and introduction of:

Bargadari / Tebhaga rights granting two-thirds share to sharecroppers ✓

Complete state ownership of land

Ryotwari individual tenure

Mahalwari joint village tenure

The Floud Commission's recommendations, calling for abolishing the Permanent Settlement and improving sharecroppers' (Bargadars') share of produce, fed directly into the later Tebhaga movement's demand for a two-thirds crop share — connecting official inquiry to grassroots agrarian mobilization.

The Tamil newspaper Kudi Arasu (Republic), launched in 1925 to propagate anti-caste ideas, was founded by:

E.V. Ramasamy Naicker (Periyar) ✓

C. Natesa Mudaliar

T.M. Nair

P. Theagaraya Chetty

Periyar (E.V. Ramasamy Naicker) founded Kudi Arasu in 1925 as a key organ of his Self-Respect Movement, propagating anti-caste and anti-Brahmanical ideas in Tamil Nadu — a distinct social-reform trajectory from the mainstream Congress nationalist movement of the same period.

The Hartog Committee (1929) report focused primarily on addressing:

Mass primary education deterioration and wastage/stagnation in the school system ✓

University autonomy

Medical education

Military training schools

The Hartog Committee specifically examined problems of "wastage and stagnation" in primary education (high dropout and repetition rates) — a distinct educational concern from the earlier Sadler Commission's focus on university-level reform.

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