Consider the following events and arrange them in a chronological sequence.
(A) Champaran Satyagraha
(B) Swadeshi Movement in Bengal
(C) Labour dispute in Ahmadabad
(D) Campaign against Rowlatt Act
(E) Jallianwala Bagh Massacre
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → (B), (A), (C), (D), (E)
(B) Swadeshi Movement in Bengal — 1905-07; through it the Congress greatly broadened its appeal among the middle classes, before Gandhiji returned to India in 1915.
(A) Champaran Satyagraha — 1917; Gandhiji spent much of the year in Champaran, seeking security of tenure for the peasants.
(C) Labour dispute in Ahmadabad — 1918; Gandhiji intervened in the dispute, demanding better working conditions for the textile mill workers.
(D) Campaign against Rowlatt Act — 1919 (March-April); Gandhiji called for a countrywide campaign when the wartime censorship of the press and detention without trial were continued.
(E) Jallianwala Bagh Massacre — April 1919; the protests against the Rowlatt Act reached a bloody climax in Amritsar, where a British Brigadier ordered his troops to open fire on a nationalist meeting.
NCERT (2026-27): “1. A Leader Announces Himself … The India that Mahatma Gandhi came back to in 1915 was rather different from the one that he had left in 1893. Although still a colony of the British, it was far more active in a political sense. The Indian National Congress now had branches in most major cities and towns. Through the Swadeshi movement of 1905-07 it had greatly broadened its appeal among the middle classes. That movement had thrown up some towering leaders – among them Bal Gangadhar T ilak of Maharashtra, Bipin Chandra Pal of Bengal, and Lala Lajpat Rai of Punjab. The three were known as ‘Lal, Bal and Pal’, the alliteration conveying the all-India character of their struggle, since their native provinces were very distant from one another.…”
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