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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 →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 →

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About how many Indians were arrested in the wake of the Salt March?

  1. 60,000
  2. 16,000
  3. 26,000
  4. 90,000
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Correct answer: A. 60,000

1. Forest laws were breached and courts boycotted. 2. Nearly 60,000 were arrested. 3. Gandhi himself was among them. _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 socialist activist persuaded Gandhi to let women join the salt protests?

  1. Aruna Asaf Ali of Delhi
  2. Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay
  3. Sarojini Naidu of Hyderabad
  4. Annie Besant of Adyar
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Correct answer: B. Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay

1. The Salt March drew women in large numbers. 2. Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay urged Gandhi. 3. She herself courted arrest. _Source: syllabus Themes in Indian History Part III, Theme 13, Mahatma Gandhi and the Nationalist Movement: Civil Disobedience and Beyond._

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By the Gandhi-Irwin Pact of 1931, what was allowed along the coast?

  1. Fishing without tax
  2. Foreign ship trade
  3. Salt manufacture
  4. Liquor sale by shops
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Correct answer: C. Salt manufacture

1. Civil disobedience was called off. 2. Prisoners were released. 3. Salt making along the coast was allowed. _Source: syllabus Themes in Indian History Part III, Theme 13, Mahatma Gandhi and the Nationalist Movement: Civil Disobedience and Beyond._

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