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Mahatma Gandhi returned to India from South Africa in:Read the answer and worked solution →Gandhi's 1917 satyagraha in Champaran, Bihar, was to inspire which group against the plantation system?Read the answer and worked solution →In 1918 Gandhi organised a satyagraha among cotton mill workers in:Read the answer and worked solution →The Rowlatt Act of 1919 allowed detention of political prisoners without trial for:Read the answer and worked solution →The Jallianwalla Bagh massacre under General Dyer took place on:Read the answer and worked solution →The Khilafat Committee was formed in Bombay in:Read the answer and worked solution →The Non-Cooperation programme was adopted at the Congress session at Nagpur in:Read the answer and worked solution →In Madras, which party contested the council elections that others boycotted during Non-Cooperation?Read the answer and worked solution →Between 1921 and 1922 the import of foreign cloth fell from Rs 102 crore to:Read the answer and worked solution →The Awadh peasant movement was led by which sanyasi who had been an indentured labourer in Fiji?Read the answer and worked solution →The Bardoli Satyagraha of 1928 against enhanced land revenue was led by:Read the answer and worked solution →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 →

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Mahatma Gandhi returned to India from South Africa in:

  1. January 1915
  2. January 1919
  3. August 1917
  4. March 1920
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Correct answer: A. January 1915

1. He had fought racist laws there with satyagraha. 2. He returned in January 1915. 3. He soon led satyagrahas in India. _Source: syllabus India and the Contemporary World II, Chapter 2, Nationalism in India._

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Gandhi's 1917 satyagraha in Champaran, Bihar, was to inspire which group against the plantation system?

  1. Tea pickers
  2. Peasants
  3. Mill workers
  4. Salt makers
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Correct answer: B. Peasants

1. The plantation system was oppressive. 2. Champaran's peasants were the cause. 3. Kheda in Gujarat followed the same year. _Source: syllabus India and the Contemporary World II, Chapter 2, Nationalism in India._

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In 1918 Gandhi organised a satyagraha among cotton mill workers in:

  1. Ahmedabad
  2. Bombay city
  3. Kanpur town
  4. Surat city
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Correct answer: A. Ahmedabad

1. Champaran and Kheda came in 1917. 2. Ahmedabad's mill workers were next. 3. Then came the nationwide Rowlatt satyagraha. _Source: syllabus India and the Contemporary World II, Chapter 2, Nationalism in India._

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