Reason and Assertion type : Assertion [A] : By a proclamation, Governor James Hope, government abolished the teaching of Hindi as a compulsory subject and released demonstrators from prisons. Reason [R] : In the cause of the agitation 1,200 were jailed, Natarajan and Talamuthu died of police torture and the movement continued till 1939.
[A] and [R] are true and [R] is the correct explanation of [A]
In 1937 the Congress ministry of C. Rajagopalachari made Hindi a compulsory subject in schools of the Madras Presidency, which triggered the anti-Hindi agitation led by Periyar, Maraimalai Adigal and others.
The agitation was intense: about 1,200 protesters were imprisoned, two young agitators, Natarajan and Thalamuthu, died in prison, and the struggle went on till 1939.
After the Congress ministry resigned in 1939, the Governor, faced with this sustained protest, issued a proclamation in 1940 withdrawing compulsory Hindi and releasing the agitators. The scale and persistence of the agitation described in the Reason is what led to the withdrawal in the Assertion.
Hence, [A] and [R] are true and [R] is the correct explanation of [A].
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