d) Neither 1 nor 2
In 1602, the State’s General of the Netherlands amalgamated many trading companies into the East India Company of the Netherlands. This company was also empowered to carry on war, to conclude treaties, to take possession of territory and to erect fortresses.
After their arrival in India, the Dutch founded their first factory in Masulipatnam (in Andhra) in 1605. They went on to establish trading centres at different parts of India and thus became a threat to the Portuguese. The Dutch got drawn into the trade of the Malay Archipelago.
The Battle of Bedara (November 1759) was fought between the British Army and the Dutch Army. In this battle, the latter force was decisively defeated by the British forces.
The Dutch were not much interested in empire building in India; their concerns were trade. In any case, their main commercial interest lay in the 23 Spice Islands of Indonesia from where they earned a huge profit through business.

a) 1 and 2 only: GOI Act 1935 was based on White Paper on Indian Constitution prepared by the British Government after the Third Round Table Conference.
o Falling short of the Complete Independence, the White paper was criticised by all the political parties of that time.
GOI Act of 1935 contained 4 major provisions – All India Federation, Provincial Autonomy, dyarchy at the centre and safeguards which vested special powers with the central and provincial executive.
o It provided legal safeguards against misbehaviour of Indian Ministers and Legislators.
o Another notable feature was the absence of Preamble.

(c) 1 and 3 only
Statement 1 is correct: By 1947, the number of mills in India went up to 423 but the scenario changed after partition, and this industry suffered a major recession. This was due to the fact that the most of the good quality cotton growing areas had gone to West Pakistan and India was left with 409 mills and only 29 percent of the cotton producing area. After Independence, this industry gradually recovered and eventually flourished.
Statement 2 is incorrect: The cotton textile industry in India can be broadly divided into two sectors, the organized sector and the unorganized sector. The decentralized sector includes cloth produced in handlooms (including Khadi) and power looms. The production of the organized sector has drastically fallen from 81 per cent in the mid-twentieth century to only about 6 per cent in 2000. At present, the power looms on the decentralized sector produce more than the handloom sector.
Statement 3 is correct: After the first mills were set up in Mumbai and Ahmedabad in the second half of the nineteenth century, the cotton textile industry expanded very rapidly. The number of units increased dramatically. The Swadeshi movement gave a major impetus to the industry as there was a call for boycotting all British made goods in favour of Indian goods. After 1921, with the development of the railway network other cotton textile centres expanded rapidly. In southern India, mills were set up at Coimbatore, Madurai and Bengaluru. In central India, Nagpur, Indore, Solapur and Vadodara became cotton textile centres.

1 & 3 only
 Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) regulates organic foods in India. FSSAI in Nov 2017, published regulations on organic food which regulates manufacture, sale, distribution and import of organic food in India. As a consequence, any food to be sold as ‘organic’ in India will have to be certified under either of the two prevailing systems. The two systems are National Programme for Organic Production (NPOP) and the Participatory Guarantee System for India (PGS-India).
 Prior to application of these regulations, only food products meant for export have to be certified and that too under the NPOP system. The PGS-India system is meant for domestic market only. Drafted with an objective of addressing the problem of fraud and mis-labelling in food claimed as ‘organic’, the organic regulations allow import of organic food into India without being re-certified in India if the organic standards of the exporting country have been recognised as equivalent to NPOP.
 Apart from operationalising these regulations, FSSAI has also developed a common logo for organic food from India called ‘Jaivik Bharat’ which would integrate the logos of both—the NPOP system and PGS-India.

(b)
 As per the RBI Act 1934, Section 26, rupee notes (and coins) are legal tenders. It means that notes and coins cannot be refused by any person of the country for payment/discharge of debt.