Civil Disobedience Movement

Why was the Simon Commission set up by the British?

• it was too manage constitutional system in India

• It came for financial and business issues

• it came to make peace on various issues

Lord Irwin, in 1929 announced ..........

• Constitutional changes

• Simon Commission

• Dominion Status

Gandhiji launched the Salt March because

• Salt was unevenly distributed

• it was part of the swaraj movement

• to manufacture salt and break the salt law

What happened when Abdul Ghaffar Khan, a disciple of Mahatma Gandhi, was arrested in April 1930?

• angry crowds demonstrated in the streets of Peshawar, facing armoured cars and police firing.

• there meetings held by the Congress leaders

• Foreign cloth was boycotted

Gandhi -Irwin Pact of 1931 led to ........

• peace talks took place between Gandhiji and Irwin

• Salt tax was abolished

• government agreed to release the political prisoners.

The event which shaped Indian politics in 1920's was .....

• setting up of Simon Commission which had no single Indian representative

• Poona Pact

• Jallianwala Bagh Massacre

Business group and industrialist lost faith in the Civil Disobedience movement because

• they lost faith in Gandhiji's methods

• they were frightened with the British policies

• they were worried about prolonged disruption of business

Who were the sanatanis?

• Dalits

• High Caste Hindus

• none of the above

Who started the Swaraj Party and why ?

• The young leaders in Congress who were against mass struggles

• Nehru and Bose who wanted full independence

• C.R. Das and Motilal Nehru as they wanted to enter the Provincial Councils and oppose British policies

Which of the following statement is true about the Dandi March of Mahatma Gandhi?

• Mahatma Gandhi marched over 240 miles with 78 of his trusted followers covering 10 miles a day

• Jawahar Lal Nehru ceremonially violated the Salt Law, manufacturing salt by boiling seawater.

• Salt tax was to be abolished only for the rich