With reference to Indian freedom struggle, consider the following events: 1. Mutiny in Royal Indian Navy 2. Quit India Movement launched 3. Second Round Table Conference What is the correct chronological sequence of the above events?

The correct order is 3-2-1: Second Round Table Conference (September to December 1931), Quit India Movement (launched 8 August 1942), and the Royal Indian Navy mutiny (February 1946).

• Statement 3 (1931): Gandhi attended the Second RTC in London as the sole Congress representative after the Gandhi-Irwin Pact of March 1931. It ended without agreement on communal representation, and the Congress later returned to civil disobedience.
• Statement 2 (1942): Launched after the Cripps Mission failed, through the Bombay AICC resolution of 8 August 1942 and the 'Do or Die' call.
• Statement 1 (1946): Ratings of the RIN at Bombay (HMIS Talwar) struck in February 1946 over food and racial discrimination. The revolt spread to other ships and shore establishments before being suppressed.

Core concept: the sequence of constitutional talks, mass movements and post-war unrest that hastened decolonisation. For Mains, this links to the Cripps Mission, the Cabinet Mission and the changing British attitude after the Second World War.

Trap: candidates place the RIN mutiny before Quit India because it is linked to the INA trials, but the mutiny itself came after 1945.