alleryThe Rowlatt Act extended wartime powers such as what?
ADetaining activists without trial
BAbolishing the salt tax
CCreating separate electorates
DEnding the Viceroy's council
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. Detaining activists without trial
1. The Rowlatt Act continued the wartime Defence of India Act into peacetime.
2. That meant silencing the press and detaining activists without trial.
3. It did not touch the salt tax or electorates.
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