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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 →Britain imported 2.5 million pounds of raw cotton in 1760. By 1787 the import had soared to:Read the answer and worked solution →Who created the cotton mill, bringing all the processes under one roof?Read the answer and worked solution →James Watt patented his improved steam engine in:Read the answer and worked solution →The Spinning Jenny of 1764 was devised by:Read the answer and worked solution →Trade through Surat was Rs 16 million in the late seventeenth century. By the 1740s it had slumped to:Read the answer and worked solution →The East India Company's paid servant who supervised weavers and examined cloth quality was the:Read the answer and worked solution →Cotton piece-goods were 33 per cent of India's exports in 1811-12. By 1850-51 the share was no more than:Read the answer and worked solution →By 1850, cotton piece-goods formed what share of the value of Indian imports?Read the answer and worked solution →The first cotton mill in Bombay came up in:Read the answer and worked solution →The first jute mill in Bengal was set up in:Read the answer and worked solution →The Elgin Mill of the 1860s was started in:Read the answer and worked solution →Dwarkanath Tagore made his fortune, before turning to industry, in:Read the answer and worked solution →Which Marwari businessman set up the first Indian jute mill in Calcutta in 1917?Read the answer and worked solution →Bird Heiglers, Andrew Yule and Jardine Skinner were the three biggest European:Read the answer and worked solution →Indian factory workers numbered 584,000 in 1901. By 1946 the number was over:Read the answer and worked solution →

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The Lahore Congress of December 1929 that demanded Purna Swaraj was presided over by:

  1. Vallabhbhai Patel
  2. Jawaharlal Nehru
  3. Motilal Nehru
  4. Subhas Chandra Bose
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Correct answer: B. Jawaharlal Nehru

1. Dominion status had not satisfied the Congress. 2. Jawaharlal Nehru presided at Lahore. 3. 26 January 1930 became Independence Day. _Source: syllabus India and the Contemporary World II, Chapter 2, Nationalism in India._

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Which date in 1930 was declared to be celebrated as Independence Day?

  1. 6 April
  2. 31 January
  3. 26 January
  4. 15 August
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Correct answer: C. 26 January

1. People took a pledge for complete independence. 2. The date was 26 January 1930. 3. The celebrations drew little attention. _Source: syllabus India and the Contemporary World II, Chapter 2, Nationalism in India._

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How many trusted volunteers accompanied Gandhi on the salt march?

  1. 24
  2. 240
  3. 100
  4. 78
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Correct answer: D. 78

1. They walked over 240 miles in 24 days. 2. There were 78 volunteers. 3. Thousands joined on the way. _Source: syllabus India and the Contemporary World II, Chapter 2, Nationalism in India._

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