Nationalism in India

The World War I created new political and economic situation in India leading to:

• huge increase in defence expenditure

• reduction in taxes

• drop in prices of commodities

• overall prosperity and stability

Mahatma Gandhi returned to India from South Africa in:

• 1914

• 1905

• 1915

• 1916

The idea of Satyagraha emphasized:

A. Power of truth and need to search for truth

B. Seeking vengeance or being aggressive

C. Appealing to the conscience of the

oppressor.

• A and B are correct

• A, B and C are correct

• Only A is correct

• A and C are correct

The Satyagraha movement in Champaran, Bihar led by Mahatma Gandhi was against :

• high revenue

• better working hours in factories

• the oppressive plantation system

• talukdars and zamindars

(a)   gave the government enormous powers to repress political activities and allowed detention of political prisoners without trial for two

year

According to General Dyer, his objective of the Jallianwala Bagh incident, was:

• to create in the minds of satyagrahis a feeling of terror and awe.

• to humiliate the satyagrahis

• to repress Congress

• to imprison the protesters

At the Calcutta session of the Congress in September 1920, Mahatma Gandhi convinced other leaders of the need to start a non-cooperation movement in support of Khilafat as well as for swaraj.

• True

• False

Non-cooperation Movement was adopted in the __________ session of Congress in December 1920.

• Calcutta

• Nagpur

• Madras

• Bombay

Which province did not boycott the council elections after the beginning of Non-cooperation Movement?

• Hyderabad

• Ahmedabad

• Lucknow

• Madras

The term 'picket' refers to:

• a protest by blocking the entrance of the shop

• Import of goods

• stealing from shops

• boycott of clothes