Target Exam

CUET

Subject

History

Chapter

Modern India: Mahatma Gandhi and the Nationalist movement

Question:

In which of the following places was Satyagraha not organized by Mahatma Gandhi after he returned to India in 1915?

Options:

Champaran

Ahmedabad

Kheda

Chauri Chaura

Correct Answer:

Chauri Chaura

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option 4 - Chauri Chaura

Option 1- Champaran
Option 2- Ahmedabad 
Option 3- Kheda
Option 4- Chauri Chaura (Answer)

The satyagraha in Champaran, Ahmedabad and Kheda marked Gandhiji as a nationalist with a deep sympathy for the poor.

  • Champaran Movement (1917)
  • Ahmedabad Workers Movement -1918
  • Kheda Movement (1918)

Chauri Chaura is associated with the Non Cooperation Movement.

“Non-cooperation,” wrote Mahatma Gandhi’s American biographer Louis Fischer, “became the name of an epoch in the life of India and of Gandhiji. Non-cooperation was negative enough to be peaceful but positive enough to be effective. It entailed denial, renunciation, and self-discipline. It was training for self-rule.” As a consequence of the Non-Cooperation Movement the British Raj was shaken to its foundations for the first time since the Revolt of 1857. Then, in February 1922, a group of peasants attacked and torched a police station in the hamlet of Chauri Chaura, in the United Provinces (now, Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal). Several constables perished in the conflagration. This act of violence prompted Gandhiji to call off the movement altogether. “No provocation,” he insisted, “can possibly justify (the) brutal murder of men who had been rendered defenceless and who had virtually thrown themselves on the mercy of the mob.