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Gandhi promised that effective non-cooperation would bring swaraj within what time?Read the answer and worked solution →Peasants torched a police station at Chauri Chaura in February 1922. What did Gandhi do?Read the answer and worked solution →Which judge sentenced Gandhi to six years in 1922 while calling him a great patriot?Read the answer and worked solution →The Congress declared Purna Swaraj and elected Nehru president at its 1929 session in which city?Read the answer and worked solution →Gandhi began the Salt March from Sabarmati ashram on which date?Read the answer and worked solution →About how many Indians were arrested in the wake of the Salt March?Read the answer and worked solution →Which socialist activist persuaded Gandhi to let women join the salt protests?Read the answer and worked solution →By the Gandhi-Irwin Pact of 1931, what was allowed along the coast?Read the answer and worked solution →At the Second Round Table Conference, who argued that Gandhi did not represent the lowest castes?Read the answer and worked solution →After the 1937 elections, how many of the 11 provinces had a Congress prime minister?Read the answer and worked solution →The Muslim League demanded autonomy for Muslim-majority areas in a resolution of which month and year?Read the answer and worked solution →The Quit India campaign began in which month and year?Read the answer and worked solution →Jinnah's Direct Action Day led to riots in Calcutta on which date?Read the answer and worked solution →Catch Gandhi's movementsRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the ViceroysRead the answer and worked solution →Run the Gandhi yearsRead the answer and worked solution →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 →

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Gandhi promised that effective non-cooperation would bring swaraj within what time?

  1. Five years
  2. Ten years
  3. Six months
  4. One year
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Correct answer: D. One year

1. Indians were asked to boycott schools, courts and taxes. 2. He promised swaraj within a year. 3. In 1921 there were 396 strikes. _Source: syllabus Themes in Indian History Part III, Theme 13, Mahatma Gandhi and the Nationalist Movement: Civil Disobedience and Beyond._

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Peasants torched a police station at Chauri Chaura in February 1922. What did Gandhi do?

  1. Called off the movement
  2. Launched Quit India at once
  3. Began the Salt March
  4. Sailed for talks in London
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Correct answer: A. Called off the movement

1. Several constables died in the fire. 2. Gandhi called off Non-cooperation. 3. He was arrested in March 1922. _Source: syllabus Themes in Indian History Part III, Theme 13, Mahatma Gandhi and the Nationalist Movement: Civil Disobedience and Beyond._

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Which judge sentenced Gandhi to six years in 1922 while calling him a great patriot?

  1. Lord Reading
  2. C.N. Broomfield
  3. Lord Irwin
  4. Sidney Rowlatt
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Correct answer: B. C.N. Broomfield

1. Gandhi was charged with sedition. 2. Justice Broomfield gave six years. 3. He hoped the term could be shortened. _Source: syllabus Themes in Indian History Part III, Theme 13, Mahatma Gandhi and the Nationalist Movement: Civil Disobedience and Beyond._

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