Arrange the following events of the Indian national movement in chronological order, beginning with the earliest to the most recent.
(A) Peasant movement in Bardoli
(B) Champaran Satyagraha
(C) Rowlatt Satyagraha
(D) Peasant movement in Kheda
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → (B), (D), (C), (A)
The four events are placed by their years:
(B) Champaran Satyagraha — 1917. Gandhiji’s first satyagraha in India, for the indigo cultivators of Champaran in Bihar.
(D) Peasant movement in Kheda — 1918. Peasants of Kheda district in Gujarat, whose crops had failed, demanded that land revenue be remitted.
(C) Rowlatt Satyagraha — 1919. Gandhiji’s first all-India protest, against the Rowlatt Act, which allowed detention without trial.
(A) Peasant movement in Bardoli — 1928. Peasants of Bardoli in Gujarat refused to pay a steep rise in land revenue; its leader, Vallabhbhai Patel, earned the title “Sardar”.