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Slice the Gandhian sitesRead the answer and worked solution →Before or after 1930Read the answer and worked solution →Sort the movementsRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Gandhi era bingoRead the answer and worked solution →Scholarly estimates of deaths during Partition range between which figures?Read the answer and worked solution →About how many people had to move across the new India-Pakistan frontiers?Read the answer and worked solution →Separate electorates for Muslims were created by the colonial government in which year?Read the answer and worked solution →In which pact of December 1916 did the Congress accept separate electorates?Read the answer and worked solution →The Arya Samaj effort to bring recent converts back to the Hindu fold was called:Read the answer and worked solution →In the 1937 provincial elections, what share of the population could vote?Read the answer and worked solution →In 1937 the Muslim League polled what share of the total Muslim vote?Read the answer and worked solution →The Muslim League was first floated in which city in 1906?Read the answer and worked solution →The Hindu Mahasabha was founded in which year?Read the answer and worked solution →Who coined the name Pakistan in pamphlets of 1933 and 1935?Read the answer and worked solution →The Muslim League passed its resolution on autonomy for Muslim-majority areas on which date?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Punjab Premier and Unionist leader drafted the 1940 resolution yet opposed a Muslim Raj in Punjab?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Urdu poet spoke in 1930 of a North-West Indian Muslim state within a loose India?Read the answer and worked solution →In the 1946 elections the League won how many of the 30 Muslim seats at the Centre?Read the answer and worked solution →The Cabinet Mission of March 1946 recommended what kind of structure for India?Read the answer and worked solution →After the Cabinet Mission failed, who besides Gandhi continued to firmly oppose Partition?Read the answer and worked solution →The League declared which date as Direct Action Day in 1946?Read the answer and worked solution →In March 1947 the Congress high command voted to divide which province into two halves?Read the answer and worked solution →Which administrator in Bahawalpur noted that police fired no shot during the Amritsar killings of March 1947?Read the answer and worked solution →Gandhi toured villages on foot in October 1946 to protect Hindus in which area of East Bengal?Read the answer and worked solution →About how many abducted women were recovered by the two governments in an operation ending in 1954?Read the answer and worked solution →In which village of Rawalpindi district did ninety Sikh women jump into a well during Partition?Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the Pakistan lettersRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the Partition yearsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the numbersRead the answer and worked solution →

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Slice the Gandhian sites

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Does not match the category
  1. Lahore
  2. London
  3. Chinhat
  4. Meerut
Matches the category
  1. Champaran
  2. Kheda
  3. Ahmedabad
  4. Dandi
  5. Sabarmati
Instructions
Slice only the places where Gandhi led struggles.
_Source: syllabus Themes in Indian History Part III, Theme 13, Mahatma Gandhi and the Nationalist Movement: Civil Disobedience and Beyond._

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Before or after 1930

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Upper category
Before
Lower category
After
Items
  1. Category
    Before
    Item
    BHU speech
  2. Category
    Before
    Item
    Champaran
  3. Category
    Before
    Item
    Rowlatt
  4. Category
    Before
    Item
    Chauri Ch.
  5. Category
    After
    Item
    Irwin Pact
  6. Category
    After
    Item
    1935 Act
  7. Category
    After
    Item
    Quit India
  8. Category
    After
    Item
    Cripps
Instructions
Send each event to before 1930 or after 1930.
_Source: syllabus Themes in Indian History Part III, Theme 13, Mahatma Gandhi and the Nationalist Movement: Civil Disobedience and Beyond._

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Sort the movements

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Items
  1. Group
    Non-coop
    Item
    Khilafat
  2. Group
    Non-coop
    Item
    Chauri Chaura
  3. Group
    Non-coop
    Item
    396 strikes
  4. Group
    Salt March
    Item
    Dandi
  5. Group
    Salt March
    Item
    60,000 jailed
  6. Group
    Salt March
    Item
    Kamaladevi
  7. Group
    Quit India
    Item
    August 1942
  8. Group
    Quit India
    Item
    Satara sarkar
Groups
  1. Item
    Non-coop
  2. Item
    Salt March
  3. Item
    Quit India
Instructions
Drop each fact onto the movement it belongs to.
_Source: syllabus Themes in Indian History Part III, Theme 13, Mahatma Gandhi and the Nationalist Movement: Civil Disobedience and Beyond._

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