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UPSC CDS Indian History Timeline — practice questions — page 23

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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 →The East India Company received its charter of sole right to trade with the East in 1600 from:Read the answer and worked solution →Vasco da Gama discovered the sea route to India in:Read the answer and worked solution →The first English factory in Bengal was set up on the banks of the Hugli in:Read the answer and worked solution →Nawab Sirajuddaulah marched with 30,000 soldiers to the English factory at:Read the answer and worked solution →

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The Jallianwalla Bagh massacre under General Dyer took place on:

  1. 10 April 1919
  2. 13 April 1920
  3. 13 April 1919
  4. 6 April 1919
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Correct answer: C. 13 April 1919

1. Police fired on a procession in Amritsar on 10 April. 2. The massacre came on 13 April 1919. 3. Dyer wanted to produce a moral effect. _Source: syllabus India and the Contemporary World II, Chapter 2, Nationalism in India._

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The Khilafat Committee was formed in Bombay in:

  1. March 1920
  2. January 1921
  3. September 1920
  4. March 1919
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Correct answer: D. March 1919

1. It sought to defend the Ottoman Khalifa. 2. It was formed in March 1919. 3. The Ali brothers worked with Gandhi. _Source: syllabus India and the Contemporary World II, Chapter 2, Nationalism in India._

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The Non-Cooperation programme was adopted at the Congress session at Nagpur in:

  1. December 1920
  2. September 1920
  3. January 1921
  4. February 1922
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Correct answer: A. December 1920

1. Calcutta in September 1920 first accepted the idea. 2. Nagpur in December 1920 worked out a compromise. 3. The movement began in January 1921. _Source: syllabus India and the Contemporary World II, Chapter 2, Nationalism in India._

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