Target Exam

CUET

Subject

History

Chapter

Modern India: Mahatma Gandhi and the Nationalist movement

Question:

Arrange the following movements led by Mahatma Gandhi in a chronological order.

A. Kheda Movement
B. Ahmedabad Workers Movement
C. Non-Cooperation Movement
D. Civil Disobedience Movement
E. Quit India Movement

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Options:

A, B, C, D, E

B, A, C, D, E

B, A, D, C, E

A, B, D, C, E

Correct Answer:

B, A, C, D, E

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option 2 - B, A, C, D, E

B. Ahmedabad Workers Movement -1918
A. Kheda Movement -1918
C. Non-Cooperation Movement -1921
D. Civil Disobedience Movement -1930
E. Quit India Movement -1942

Kheda Satyagraha was launched 7 days after the Ahmedabad mill strike.

 

Timeline of important events in Indian Freedom movement:

1915: Mahatma Gandhi returns from South Africa
1917: Champaran movement
1918: Gandhiji was involved in two campaigns in his home state of Gujarat. First, he intervened in a labour dispute in Ahmedabad, demanding better working conditions for the textile mill workers. Then he joined peasants in Kheda in asking the state for the remission of taxes following the failure of their harvest.
1919: Rowlatt Satyagraha (March-April)
1919: Jallianwala Bagh massacre (April)
1921: Non-cooperation and Khilafat Movements
1928: Peasant movement in Bardoli
1929: “Purna Swaraj” accepted as Congress goal at the Lahore Congress (December)
1930: Civil Disobedience Movement begins; Dandi March (March-April)
1931: Gandhi-Irwin Pact (March); Second Round Table Conference (December)
1935: Government of India Act promises some form of representative government
1939: Congress ministries resign
1942: Quit India Movement begins (August)
1946: Mahatma Gandhi visits Noakhali and other riot-torn areas to stop communal violence.