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  1. Which statement on Gandhian movements is NOT correct?
    1. Gandhi favoured mass movements
    2. Gandhian movements were non-violent
    3. Leaders did not matter in Gandhian movements
    4. Gandhi took care to set satyagraha apart from mere passive resistance
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    Answer: (C) Leaders did not matter in Gandhian movements

    Gandhi’s own leadership — and that of his lieutenants — was central to every campaign.

  2. Gandhi coined the term "satyagraha" in —
    1. South Africa
    2. Champaran
    3. Kheda
    4. the anti-Rowlatt agitation
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    Answer: (A) South Africa

    In 1906–08, during the struggle against the registration law in the Transvaal.

  3. Gandhi’s first venture into all-India politics was the — (IAS 1999)
    1. Non-Cooperation movement
    2. Rowlatt satyagraha
    3. Champaran movement
    4. Dandi march
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    Answer: (B) Rowlatt satyagraha

    Champaran was local; the Rowlatt satyagraha of 1919 was his first all-India campaign.

  4. Where did Gandhi first start satyagraha in India? (IAS 2007)
    1. Ahmedabad
    2. Bardoli
    3. Champaran
    4. Kheda
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    Answer: (C) Champaran

    Champaran, Bihar, 1917.

  5. Consider: 1. Champaran was Gandhi’s first satyagraha in India. 2. It took up the grievances of peasants forced to grow indigo. Which is/are correct?
    1. 1 only
    2. 2 only
    3. Both
    4. Neither
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    Answer: (C) Both

    The tinkathia system tied tenants to indigo on 3/20 of their land.

  6. Gandhi received the Kaisar-i-Hind gold medal for —
    1. raising an ambulance corps in the Boer War
    2. supporting the British in the First World War
    3. both of these
    4. constructive work in South Africa
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    Answer: (A) raising an ambulance corps in the Boer War

    He returned it in 1920.

  7. On the Rowlatt satyagraha: 1. The Act followed the Sedition Committee’s report. 2. Gandhi tried to use the Home Rule Leagues. 3. Protests against the Simon Commission coincided with it. (IAS 2015)
    1. 1 only
    2. 1 and 2
    3. 2 and 3
    4. All three
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    Answer: (B) 1 and 2

    The Simon Commission came in 1928.

  8. The Rowlatt Act let the government suspend the right of —
    1. free speech
    2. occupation
    3. movement
    4. habeas corpus
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    Answer: (D) habeas corpus

    Detention without trial for up to two years.

  9. Who organised the Satyagraha Sabha whose members pledged to break the Rowlatt Act?
    1. Madan Mohan Malaviya
    2. Saifuddin Kitchlew
    3. Mahatma Gandhi
    4. Mazhar-ul-Haq
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    Answer: (C) Mahatma Gandhi

    Bombay, 24 February 1919.

  10. Who was NOT a founder of the Khilafat Committee?
    1. M.A. Jinnah
    2. Abul Kalam Azad
    3. Shaukat Ali
    4. Mohammad Ali
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    Answer: (A) M.A. Jinnah

    Jinnah kept away from the Khilafat agitation.

  1. How did Non-Cooperation change the Congress?
    1. It drew close to the revolutionaries
    2. It turned from petitioning to revolution
    3. It came to mobilise and lead the masses in the national struggle
    4. Its leadership passed to the young
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    Answer: (C) It came to mobilise and lead the masses in the national struggle

    For the first time the Congress led a mass movement across the country.

  2. Which was NOT founded by Gandhi?
    1. Phoenix Settlement
    2. Tolstoy Farm
    3. Sabarmati Ashram
    4. Shantiniketan
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    Answer: (D) Shantiniketan

    Shantiniketan is linked with the Tagores.

  3. How many members did the Nagpur constitution (1920) give the All India Congress Committee?
    1. 150
    2. 300
    3. 350
    4. 500
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    Answer: (C) 350

    The Working Committee had 15.

  4. Who became the first elected President of the Central Legislative Assembly in 1925?
    1. Motilal Nehru
    2. Vithalbhai Patel
    3. Lala Lajpat Rai
    4. C.R. Das
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    Answer: (B) Vithalbhai Patel

    Elected in August 1925.

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