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Bihar Board Class 10 (BSEB) Nationalism in India — practice questions

Explore 17 free Nationalism in India questions in Bihar Board Class 10 (BSEB) History. Open each question or exercise to read its content, reference answers and available explanation.

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Satyagraha as taught by Gandhi means:Read the answer and worked solution →The Jallianwala Bagh massacre took place in:Read the answer and worked solution →The Khilafat issue united Indians around the cause of:Read the answer and worked solution →Gandhi argued that the British Raj could be brought down through:Read the answer and worked solution →The Rowlatt Act allowed the British to:Read the answer and worked solution →The Non-Cooperation Movement was called off after the violence at:Read the answer and worked solution →Who led the peasant movement in Awadh during the Non-Cooperation period?Read the answer and worked solution →The Salt March (Dandi March) began on:Read the answer and worked solution →In the Lahore Session of 1929 the Congress declared its goal as:Read the answer and worked solution →The Gandhi-Irwin Pact (1931) was significant because it:Read the answer and worked solution →Khadi became a national symbol during the Non-Cooperation Movement because it:Read the answer and worked solution →The Simon Commission was met with the slogan:Read the answer and worked solution →Vande Mataram was composed by:Read the answer and worked solution →The famous 1905 painting of Bharat Mata was created by:Read the answer and worked solution →The slogan "Inquilab Zindabad" is associated with:Read the answer and worked solution →The Poona Pact (1932) was an agreement between Gandhi and:Read the answer and worked solution →The 1921 tricolour designed by Gandhi placed at its centre a:Read the answer and worked solution →

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Satyagraha as taught by Gandhi means:

  1. force of truth, non-violent
  2. protest by hunger strike only
  3. boycott of European goods
  4. armed self-defence force
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Correct answer: A. force of truth, non-violent

Satyagraha literally = "the force of truth". The method confronts injustice openly and without violence. Hunger strike and boycotts are tactics within it, not the definition.

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The Jallianwala Bagh massacre took place in:

  1. Calcutta, 1919
  2. Bombay, 1921
  3. Lahore, 1920
  4. Amritsar, 1919
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Correct answer: D. Amritsar, 1919

On 13 April 1919, General Dyer ordered British troops to fire on a peaceful crowd in Jallianwala Bagh, Amritsar. The event sharpened nationalist sentiment.

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The Khilafat issue united Indians around the cause of:

  1. tax reduction in farms
  2. restoring the Ottoman Caliph
  3. banning of cow slaughter
  4. a separate Muslim state
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Correct answer: B. restoring the Ottoman Caliph

After WWI, the Allies were stripping power from the Ottoman Caliph (the "Khalifa"). Indian Muslims protested Gandhi joined hands with the Khilafat leaders for cross-community unity.

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