Target Exam

CUET

Subject

History

Chapter

Modern India: Mahatma Gandhi and the Nationalist movement

Question:

Arrange the historical events in chronological order:

(a) Gandhi - Irwin Pact
(b) Peasant Movement in Bardoli
(c) Mahatma Gandhi returns from South Africa
(d) Quit India Movement begins
(e) Rowlatt Satyagraha

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Options:

(c), (e), (a), (b), (d)

(e), (c), (b), (a), (d)

(c), (e), (b), (a), (d)

(a), (b), (d), (c), (e)

Correct Answer:

(c), (e), (b), (a), (d)

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option (3) → (c), (e), (b), (a), (d)

(c) Mahatma Gandhi returns from South Africa: 1915
(e) Rowlatt Satyagraha: 1919
(b) Peasant Movement in Bardoli: 1928
(a) Gandhi - Irwin Pact: 1931
(d) Quit India Movement begins: 1942

Timeline of important events in the Indian Freedom movement:

1915: Mahatma Gandhi returns from South Africa
1917: Champaran movement
1918: Peasant movements in Kheda (Gujarat), and workers’ movement in Ahmedabad
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