Target Exam

CUET

Subject

History

Chapter

Modern India: Mahatma Gandhi and the Nationalist movement

Question:

Arrange the following in a chronological order.

(A) Direct Action Day
(B) Salt March
(C) Gandhi returns to India from South Africa
(D) Gandhi's address at Banaras Hindu University
(E) Lahore session of the Indian National Congress

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Options:

(D), (E), (C), (A), (B)

(B), (C), (D), (E), (A)

(C), (D), (E), (B), (A)

(A), (C), (E), (D), (B)

Correct Answer:

(C), (D), (E), (B), (A)

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option (3) → (C), (D), (E), (B), (A)

(C) 1915: Gandhi returns to India from South Africa
(D) 1916: Gandhi's address at Banaras Hindu University
(E) 1929: Lahore session of the Indian National Congress
(B) 1930: Salt March
(A) 1946: Direct Action Day

Timeline of important events in the Indian Freedom movement:

1915: Mahatma Gandhi returns from South Africa
1916: Opening of the Banaras Hindu University 
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 also called Salt 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
16 June 1946: Cabinet Mission presents a scheme for the formation of an Interim Government at the Centre
16 August 1946: Muslim League announces Direct Action Day
2 September 1946: Congress forms Interim Government with Nehru as the Vice-President
13 October 1946: The Muslim League decides to join the Interim Government
3-6 December 1946: British Prime Minister, Attlee, meets some Indian leaders; talks fail
9 December 1946: Constituent Assembly begins its sessions.