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The Congress and the Muslim League signed the Lucknow Pact in:Read the answer and worked solution →Gandhi established the Natal Congress in South Africa to fight racial discrimination in:Read the answer and worked solution →Who renounced his knighthood after the Jallianwala Bagh massacre?Read the answer and worked solution →Bhagat Singh, Azad and Rajguru assassinated police officer Saunders on:Read the answer and worked solution →Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru were executed on:Read the answer and worked solution →Who persuaded Gandhi to allow women to join the Salt Satyagraha?Read the answer and worked solution →After the 1937 elections the Congress formed governments in how many of the 11 provinces?Read the answer and worked solution →By the end of 1943, how many people had been arrested in the Quit India movement?Read the answer and worked solution →Subhas Chandra Bose secretly left his Calcutta home to raise the Azad Hind Fauj in:Read the answer and worked solution →The Muslim League's Direct Action Day, which set off riots in Calcutta, was:Read the answer and worked solution →The first sub-Saharan African country to gain independence, in 1957, was:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the early Congress leadersRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the RadicalsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the national movement datesRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the movement wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Moderate or RadicalRead the answer and worked solution →Sort by decadeRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →National movement bingoRead the answer and worked solution →Raja Rammohun Roy founded which reform association in Calcutta?Read the answer and worked solution →Sati was banned in:Read the answer and worked solution →Whose use of ancient texts led to the 1856 law permitting widow remarriage?Read the answer and worked solution →Who formed an association for widow remarriage in the Telugu-speaking areas of the Madras Presidency?Read the answer and worked solution →Swami Dayanand Saraswati founded the Arya Samaj in:Read the answer and worked solution →Tarabai Shinde's book comparing the lot of women and men was:Read the answer and worked solution →Pandita Ramabai founded a home for ill-treated widows at:Read the answer and worked solution →The Child Marriage Restraint Act was passed in:Read the answer and worked solution →The Paramhans Mandali, founded in Bombay in 1840, worked for the:Read the answer and worked solution →The Satnami movement among leatherworkers of Central India was founded by:Read the answer and worked solution →Shri Narayana Guru, who preached one caste, one religion, one god for humankind, came from which caste?Read the answer and worked solution →

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The Congress and the Muslim League signed the Lucknow Pact in:

  1. 1906
  2. 1916
  3. 1907
  4. 1919
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Correct answer: B. 1916

1. The Congress had reunited a year earlier. 2. The Lucknow Pact was signed in 1916. 3. Both agreed to work for representative government. _Source: syllabus Our Pasts III, Chapter 9, The Making of the National Movement 1870s-1947._

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Gandhi established the Natal Congress in South Africa to fight racial discrimination in:

  1. 1893
  2. 1906
  3. 1895
  4. 1915
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Correct answer: C. 1895

1. He led non-violent marches there. 2. The Natal Congress was founded in 1895. 3. He returned to India in 1915 aged 46. _Source: syllabus Our Pasts III, Chapter 9, The Making of the National Movement 1870s-1947._

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Who renounced his knighthood after the Jallianwala Bagh massacre?

  1. Motilal Nehru of UP
  2. Chitta Ranjan Das
  3. Sarojini Naidu poet
  4. Rabindranath Tagore
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Correct answer: D. Rabindranath Tagore

1. General Dyer fired on Baisakhi day. 2. Tagore gave up his knighthood in protest. 3. The Rowlatt Satyagraha was the first all-India struggle. _Source: syllabus Our Pasts III, Chapter 9, The Making of the National Movement 1870s-1947._

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