Target Exam

CUET

Subject

History

Chapter

Modern India: Mahatma Gandhi and the Nationalist movement

Question:

Match List I with List II.

 List I   List II
 A. Rowlatt Satyagraha    I. 1917
 B. Dandi March  II. 1928
 C. Champaran  III. 1919
 D. Peasant Movement Bardoli    IV. 1930  

Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

Options:

A-I, B-III, C-IV, D-II

A-II, B-I, C-III, D-IV

A-IV, B-II, C-I, D-III

A-III, B-IV, C-I, D-II

Correct Answer:

A-III, B-IV, C-I, D-II

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option (4) → A-III, B-IV, C-I, D-II

The correct match is:

 List I   List II
 A. Rowlatt Satyagraha    III. 1919
 B. Dandi March  IV. 1930
 C. Champaran  I. 1917
 D. Peasant Movement Bardoli    II. 1928

Explanation:

Rowlatt Satyagraha was organised in March-April of 1919: Gandhiji called for a countrywide campaign against the “Rowlatt Act”. In towns across North and West India, life came to a standstill, as shops shut down and schools closed in response to the bandh call. The protests were particularly intense in the Punjab, where many men had served on the British side in the War – expecting to be rewarded for their service. Instead, they were given the Rowlatt Act. Gandhiji was detained while proceeding to the Punjab, even as prominent local Congressmen were arrested. The situation in the province grew progressively more tense, reaching a bloody climax in Amritsar in April 1919, when a British Brigadier ordered his troops to open fire on a nationalist meeting. More than four hundred people were killed in what is known as the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.

On 12th March, 1930, Gandhiji set out on a march from Dandi to Sabarmati Ashram. The Dandi March also called Salt March marked the beginning of the Civil Disobedience Movement


Mahatma Gandhi organized the Champaran Satyagraha in 1917 in order to voice against the oppressive indigo plantation system. At the annual Congress, held in Lucknow in December 1916, Mahatma Gandhi was approached by a peasant from Champaran in Bihar, who told him about the harsh treatment of peasants by British indigo planters.  Mahatma Gandhi was to spend much of 1917 in Champaran, seeking to obtain the peasant's security of tenure as well as the freedom to cultivate the crops of their choice.

For several years after the Non-cooperation Movement ended, Mahatma Gandhi focused on his social reform work. In 1928, however, he began to think of re-entering politics. That year there was an all-India campaign in opposition to the all-White Simon Commission, sent from England to enquire into conditions in the colony. Gandhiji did not himself participate in this movement, although he gave it his blessings, as he also did to a peasant satyagraha in Bardoli in the same year.