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Q3 (NDA-I/2010) History & Culture › National Movement (1857–1947) › Constitutional plans and missions Answer Verified

Statement I : In order to create linguistic provinces in India, the Congress Party constituted Motilal Nehru Committee in 1928. Statement II : The Motilal Nehru Committee suggested creation of linguistic provinces in India.

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Statement I is false because the Motilal Nehru Committee (1928) was not constituted by the Congress Party alone, but by the All-Parties Conference to draft a constitutional scheme for India [t2][t6]. While the Congress supported the initiative, it was a multi-party effort in response to the challenge by Lord Birkenhead. Statement II is true as the Nehru Report (1928) explicitly recommended the creation of linguistic provinces [c2][t1]. The report argued that for a province to educate itself and conduct daily work effectively, it must be a linguistic area [t3]. This recommendation reiterated the Congress's earlier commitment made during the 1920 Nagpur session to reorganize India into linguistically based units [t4][t5]. Therefore, while the committee's findings supported linguistic reorganisation, the premise of its formation in Statement I is historically inaccurate regarding its origin as a purely Congress-constituted body for that specific purpose.

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  1. [1] Rajiv Ahir. A Brief History of Modern India (2019 ed.). SPECTRUM. > Chapter 18: Simon Commission and the Nehru Report > Simon Commission > p. 365
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