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Tilak, Bipin Chandra Pal and Lala Lajpat Rai were together known as:Read the answer and worked solution →Who was Gandhi's acknowledged political mentor among the Moderates?Read the answer and worked solution →Gandhi's first major public appearance in India was at the opening of which institution in February 1916?Read the answer and worked solution →At the December 1916 Congress session in Lucknow a peasant asked Gandhi to help indigo cultivators of which district?Read the answer and worked solution →In 1918 Gandhi joined peasants seeking remission of taxes after a failed harvest in which Gujarat district?Read the answer and worked solution →The tough wartime measures continued in 1919 on the advice of a committee chaired by whom?Read the answer and worked solution →More than four hundred people were killed at Jallianwala Bagh in which month and year?Read the answer and worked solution →The Khilafat Movement of 1919-1920 was led by which brothers?Read the answer and worked solution →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 →

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Tilak, Bipin Chandra Pal and Lala Lajpat Rai were together known as:

  1. The Khilafat Trio
  2. Lal, Bal and Pal
  3. The Moderates
  4. The Bombay Trio
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Correct answer: B. Lal, Bal and Pal

1. They rose during the Swadeshi movement of 1905-07. 2. The alliteration showed an all-India struggle. 3. They favoured militant opposition. _Source: syllabus Themes in Indian History Part III, Theme 13, Mahatma Gandhi and the Nationalist Movement: Civil Disobedience and Beyond._

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Who was Gandhi's acknowledged political mentor among the Moderates?

  1. Gopal Krishna Gokhale
  2. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
  3. Annie Besant of Madras
  4. Lala Lajpat Rai of Punjab
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Correct answer: A. Gopal Krishna Gokhale

1. Gokhale advised him to travel India for a year. 2. He was a Moderate. 3. Jinnah too was in that group. _Source: syllabus Themes in Indian History Part III, Theme 13, Mahatma Gandhi and the Nationalist Movement: Civil Disobedience and Beyond._

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Gandhi's first major public appearance in India was at the opening of which institution in February 1916?

  1. Presidency College
  2. Banaras Hindu University
  3. Aligarh Muslim University
  4. Calcutta University
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Correct answer: B. Banaras Hindu University

1. He scolded the rich for ignoring the poor. 2. It was at the BHU opening in February 1916. 3. Salvation, he said, would come through the farmer. _Source: syllabus Themes in Indian History Part III, Theme 13, Mahatma Gandhi and the Nationalist Movement: Civil Disobedience and Beyond._

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