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Correct Answer: Option (A) — Both A and R are true but R is the correct explanation of A
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Standard Reference VerifiedAssertion (A) is true: Viceroy Lord Linlithgow in a telegram to British Prime Minister Winston Churchill described the Quit India (August) Movement of 1942 as 'by far the most serious rebellion since that of 1857'. Reason (R) is true: Massive rural and peasant mobilization in regions like eastern UP, Bihar, Bengal (Midnapore), and Maharashtra (Satara) disrupted communications and established parallel governments ('Jatiya Sarkar', 'Prati Sarkar'), which directly led Linlithgow to view it as an existential challenge to British rule.
Linlithgow's famous dispatch directly linked the severity of the 1942 movement to widespread mass/peasant participation undermining administration.
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