Which of the Following Factors Encouraged the British to Transfer

question 42

Multiple Choice

Which of the following factors encouraged the British to transfer power quickly to the Indian National Congress following World War II?

• A) The threat of radicalized peasant uprisings prompted the British to expedite the transfer of power to the middle-class leaders of the Indian National Congress.
• B) The British had to give up the rule of India because Indian nationalists threatened violent revolution over the British attempt to select the Indian cricket team to tour Australia in 1946.
• C) The British, exhausted from World War II, were unable to cope with the cost of famine relief in 1946.
• D) The outbreak of civil war between Hindus and Muslims in South Asia in 1945 encouraged the British to leave India as quickly as possible.

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