Question

The British Viceroy responsible for involving Indians in The Second World War was
a) Canning b) Dalhousie c) Linlithgow d) Litton

Answer 1

Lord Linlithgow was responsible for including Indians in the Second World War.

The Second World War broke out and on the same day Lord Linlithgow declared India as belligerent and at war.

While Subhash Chandra Bose advocated a campaign of mass civil disobedience to protest against Viceroy Lord Linlithgow’s decision to declare war on India’s behalf without consulting the Congress leadership. Linlithgow was the longest serving Viceroy.

Answer 2

The correct answer for your question is option (c)-Lord Linlithgow.

Actually, Indians were not voluntarily involved in the second world war but they were dragged in to the mess by the British Raj. Back in 1939 the British Raj declared war on Germany. Nearly two and a half million soldiers from the allied nations fought in favor of Britain. Indians, fought in Burma, the European theater against Germany, in North Africa and also in Hong Kong and Singapore.

Britain was ready to do any thing and any level promises in order to save their mother land from German invasion. So they promised to award independence to India if they Indian soldiers to fight the World War II.