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Alluri Sitaram Raju led a guerrilla movement in the Gudem Hills of:Read the answer and worked solution →Under which Act of 1859 could Assam plantation workers not leave the tea gardens without permission?Read the answer and worked solution →Gandhi withdrew the Non-Cooperation Movement in February 1922 after violence at:Read the answer and worked solution →The Simon Commission arrived in India in which year?Read the answer and worked solution →The Lahore Congress of December 1929 that demanded Purna Swaraj was presided over by:Read the answer and worked solution →Which date in 1930 was declared to be celebrated as Independence Day?Read the answer and worked solution →How many trusted volunteers accompanied Gandhi on the salt march?Read the answer and worked solution →Gandhi reached Dandi and broke the salt law on:Read the answer and worked solution →The Gandhi-Irwin Pact was signed on:Read the answer and worked solution →The Poona Pact between Gandhi and Ambedkar was signed in:Read the answer and worked solution →The Hindustan Socialist Republican Army was founded in 1928 at a meeting in:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the satyagraha sitesRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the revolutionariesRead the answer and worked solution →Run the freedom struggle datesRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the movement wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Non-Cooperation or Civil DisobedienceRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the participantsRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Nationalism bingoRead the answer and worked solution →The earliest hand printing, rubbing paper on inked woodblocks from AD 594, developed in:Read the answer and worked solution →The oldest Japanese printed book, from AD 868, is the Buddhist:Read the answer and worked solution →Who brought knowledge of woodblock printing from China to Italy in 1295?Read the answer and worked solution →Johann Gutenberg developed the first-known printing press in the 1430s at:Read the answer and worked solution →Gutenberg modelled his printing press on the:Read the answer and worked solution →The first book Gutenberg printed was the Bible, in about how many copies?Read the answer and worked solution →Martin Luther wrote the Ninety Five Theses criticising Church practices in:Read the answer and worked solution →The Roman Church began keeping an Index of Prohibited Books from:Read the answer and worked solution →Penny chapbooks carried by pedlars called chapmen were sold in:Read the answer and worked solution →Richard M. Hoe's power-driven cylindrical press could print how many sheets per hour?Read the answer and worked solution →The printing press first came to India with Portuguese missionaries at:Read the answer and worked solution →

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Alluri Sitaram Raju led a guerrilla movement in the Gudem Hills of:

  1. Assam valley
  2. Andhra Pradesh
  3. Uttar Pradesh
  4. Gujarat state
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Correct answer: B. Andhra Pradesh

1. Hill people resented closed forests and begar. 2. The Gudem Hills are in Andhra Pradesh. 3. Raju was executed in 1924. _Source: syllabus India and the Contemporary World II, Chapter 2, Nationalism in India._

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Under which Act of 1859 could Assam plantation workers not leave the tea gardens without permission?

  1. Vernacular Press Act
  2. Indian Arms Act rule
  3. Inland Emigration Act
  4. Rowlatt Sedition Act
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Correct answer: C. Inland Emigration Act

1. Workers left the gardens hoping Gandhi Raj was coming. 2. The Inland Emigration Act of 1859 confined them. 3. They were caught and beaten. _Source: syllabus India and the Contemporary World II, Chapter 2, Nationalism in India._

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Gandhi withdrew the Non-Cooperation Movement in February 1922 after violence at:

  1. Jallianwalla
  2. Champaran
  3. Sholapur city
  4. Chauri Chaura
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Correct answer: D. Chauri Chaura

1. A peaceful demonstration turned violent. 2. Chauri Chaura in Gorakhpur was the site. 3. Satyagrahis needed proper training, he felt. _Source: syllabus India and the Contemporary World II, Chapter 2, Nationalism in India._

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