CBSE Class 12 (Arts) Mahatma Gandhi and the Nationalist Movement — practice questions
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Practice CBSE Class 12 (Arts) Mahatma Gandhi and the Nationalist Movement in the app →In which year did the Champaran Satyagraha take place?Champaran peasants were forced by planters to grow which crop?Which local peasant invited Gandhi to investigate the grievances at Champaran?When Champaran authorities ordered Gandhi to leave, what did he do?On what date was the Rowlatt Act passed in Delhi?For how long could the Rowlatt Act imprison a suspect without trial?Which Muslim League member resigned from the Imperial Legislative Council over the Rowlatt Act?Why did Gandhi suspend the Rowlatt satyagraha in 1919?On what date did the Jallianwala Bagh massacre take place?Who ordered troops to open fire at Jallianwala Bagh?Which annual fair had drawn the crowd to Jallianwala Bagh?In which city is Jallianwala Bagh located?How many sides of Jallianwala Bagh allowed a way out?Which body inquired into the Punjab disorders of 1919?Who renounced his British knighthood after the Jallianwala Bagh massacre?Who shot Michael O'Dwyer at Caxton Hall, London, in 1940?The anger after Jallianwala Bagh led to which movement?Dyer reported that his party fired how many rounds at Jallianwala Bagh?The Khilafat movement protested British policy towards which empire?Which 1920 treaty severed Palestine, Syria and Iraq from the Ottoman Empire?In which year did Turkey abolish the caliphate?In 1920 Gandhi and Khilafat leaders pledged to fight for Khilafat and what?The years 1919 to 1922 are widely seen as the heyday of what?Which was part of the initial non-cooperation programme?At Chauri Chaura, a mob killed how many unarmed policemen?How did Gandhi respond to the Chauri Chaura violence?In which year was the Bardoli Satyagraha?On which date did the Salt March begin?How many days did the Salt March last?How many satyagrahis set out with Gandhi on the Dandi march?The Salt March ended at which coastal village?How far was Dandi from Sabarmati Ashram?Which British law gave the government a monopoly on salt?Why did Gandhi choose salt as the focus of protest?The salt tax made up what share of British Raj tax revenue?Gandhi wrote to which Viceroy offering to stop the march on eleven demands?On the bank of which river was the tricolour raised at Lahore in December 1929?What did Gandhi lift and boil at Dandi to make illegal salt?Who led the Dharasana marchers after Abbas Tyabji was arrested?Gandhi was arrested days before a planned action at which salt works?Who organised the Vedaranyam salt march on the east coast?Time magazine named Gandhi Man of the Year for which year?Who trained 50,000 nonviolent Khudai Khidmatgar activists in Peshawar?The 1930 civil disobedience was the first time which group joined in masses?On what date was the Gandhi-Irwin Pact signed?Over how many political prisoners were freed under the Gandhi-Irwin Pact?Which Gandhi demand did Irwin refuse in 1931?Which British politician mocked Gandhi as a seditious fakir for meeting the Viceroy?The Poona Pact of 1932 was a settlement between Gandhi and which leader?Gandhi's 1932 fast opposed separate electorates for which group?Where was the Poona Pact signed on 24 September 1932?The Poona Pact settled on how many reserved seats for Depressed Classes?On what date did Gandhi deliver the Quit India speech?Gandhi delivered the Quit India speech at which Bombay ground?Linlithgow called Quit India the most serious rebellion since which year?Which Congress leader quit the party over the Quit India resolution?How many British battalions were deployed to restore order in 1942?Gandhi called the Cripps offer a post-dated cheque on what?Stafford Cripps belonged to which British party?What weakened the Cripps offer in Congress eyes?Which Viceroy declared India at war in 1939 without consulting leaders?In 1935 Gandhi denied that his civil disobedience came from whose writings?Which American civil rights leader was moved by Gandhi's Salt March?The word satyagraha combines Sanskrit words meaning what?How long was Gandhi's fast during his imprisonment after Quit India?Which British party won in 1945 promising independence to India?Which leader left Congress after warning against mixing religion with the Khilafat cause?Why did Gandhi pick 6 April 1930 for breaking the salt law?A pinch of salt made by Gandhi himself sold for how many rupees?