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Read the passage given below carefully and answer the following questions:

The interim government took a firm stance against the possible division of India into smaller principalities of different sizes. The Muslim League opposed the Indian National Congress and took the view that the States should be free to adopt any course they liked. Sardar Patel, India?s Deputy Prime Minister and the Home Minister during the crucial period, immediately after Independence, played a historic role in negotiating with the rulers of Princely States in bringing most of them into the Indian Union.

(i) Which government has been referred to as the interim government?

(ii) Why did Muslim League oppose the Indian National Congress?

(iii) What makes the role of Sardar Patel a historic one? Explain.

Answer:

(i) The government of free India working before the General elections has been termed as the Interim Government.

(ii) The Muslim League opposed the Indian National Congress because the interim government took a firm stance against a possible division of India in to smaller principalities of different size. The leange wished that the state should be free to adopt any course they liked.

(iii) Sardar Patel played a historic role in negotiating with the rulers of Princely States in bringing most of them into the Indian Union whether by negotiation or by force.