Put the following historical events in chronological order.
(A) Jallianwala Bagh massacre
(B) Gandhi-Irwin Pact
(C) 'Purna Swaraj' accepted as Congress goal at Lahore.
(D) Peasant movements in Kheda (Gujarat) and Workers' movement in Allahabad.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → (D), (A), (C), (B)
Each event is placed by the year it took place.
(D) Peasant movements in Kheda (Gujarat) and Workers’ movement in Allahabad. — 1918. After Champaran (1917), Gandhiji led the Kheda satyagraha of peasants who could not pay land revenue after a crop failure, and a satyagraha of cotton mill workers in Ahmedabad.
(A) Jallianwala Bagh massacre — 13 April 1919. General Dyer’s troops fired on an unarmed crowd in Amritsar during the protests against the Rowlatt Act.
(C) ‘Purna Swaraj’ accepted as Congress goal at Lahore. — December 1929. The Lahore session, presided over by Jawaharlal Nehru, adopted complete independence as the goal, and 26 January 1930 was celebrated as Independence Day.
(B) Gandhi-Irwin Pact — 5 March 1931. Gandhiji called off the Civil Disobedience Movement and agreed to attend the Second Round Table Conference in London.
Note: It seems that there is a mistake in the original NTA paper, which prints ‘Workers’ movement in Allahabad’ when it should read ‘Workers’ movement in Ahmedabad’. The workers’ satyagraha led by Gandhiji alongside the Kheda movement was in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, and the order of the events is unaffected.