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  • Question 1
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    Who among the following leaders came into limelight during the Kheda Movement?
    Solution

    Kheda satyagraha was launched in 1918 under the leadership of Gandhiji, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel etc.

    Farmers here faced a terrible famine. After this British conducted a land survey and increased the tax based on area which was not acceptable at all to the farmers.

    When government refused to accept the petition to reduce the tax, Gandhi resorted to Satyagraha. 

  • Question 2
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    In 1918, along with Kheda movement in Gujarat, Gandhiji organised another movement regarding the problems of textile mill workers. Name the place associated with the movement.
    Solution
    In 1918 along with Kheda movement Gandhi also took part in another movement. It was known as Ahmadabad Satyagraha. Gandhiji led the mill-workers in Ahmadabad in a strike against the mill-owners who had refused to pay them higher wages. When the workers seemed to weaken, he provided support to them by undertaking a fast. Afraid of the consequences, the mill-owners agreed on the fourth day of the  fast to give a 35% increase in wages.
  • Question 3
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    Suspension of Civil Disobedience Movement was a result of which of the following ?
    Solution
    Gandhi met the Viceroy, Lord Irwin and signed an agreement known as the Gandhi-Irwin Pact in March 1931. The government agreed to :
    i Release all political prisoners, except those guilty of violence.
    ii Permit the free collection or manufacture of salt by persons near the seacoast.
    iii Withdraw all ordinances & end prosecutions.
    The Congress in turn  consented to the following:
    i To suspend the Civil Disobedience Movement.
    ii To participate in the second session of the Round Table Conference.
    iii Not to press for investigation into police excesses.
  • Question 4
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    The term Satyagraha was used by Mahatma Gandhi for the first time during _________.
    Solution

    The first Satyagraha movements inspired by Mohandas Gandhi occurred in Champaran district of Bihar and the Kheda district of Gujarat on 1917 to 1918. Champaran Satyagraha was the first to be started, but the word Satyagraha was used for the first time in Anti Rowlatt Act agitation.

  • Question 5
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    A member of Simon Commission later became Prime Minister of Britain and also supported granting of independence to India. He was __________.
    Solution
    • The Indian Statutory Commission, popularly known as the Simon Commission was a group of seven British Members of Parliament of United Kingdom that had been dispatched to India in 1927 to study the constitutional reform and recommend to the Government. One of its members was Clement Attlee, who subsequently became the British Prime Minister and eventually oversaw the granting of independence to India and Pakistan in 1947.
  • Question 6
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    Kheda movement was associated with __________.
    Solution

    Kheda is a district in the state of Gujarat. Farmers here faced a terrible famine. After this British conducted a land survey and compelled the peasants to pay land revenue. They, therefore, started a no-tax movement in Kheda district in 1918. Gandhiji organised the peasants to offer satyagraha. The peasants refused to pay land revenue and ultimately the government was forced to arrive at a settlement with the peasants.

  • Question 7
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    Who was the founder of the Muslim League?
    Solution
    Nawab Salimullah of Dacca proposed the formation of a Muslim political party and on 30th December 1906, a new party was launched at the Dacca Educational Conference. This party was known as the All India Muslim League. 
  • Question 8
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    Which of the following similarities do you find between Champaran movement and Kheda movement?
    A. Both movements were led by Mahatma Gandhi.
    B. Both movements took place in the same year.
    C. Both movements were associated with peasant problems.
    D. Both places were in the same presidency.
    Solution
    Both the movements dealt with the problems of the peasants in different places. Champaran is in Bihar where peasants were forced to cultivate indigo. Gandhiji did a satyagaraha in 1917 to secure justice for the peasants.

    Due to constant famines, the crops had failed in the Kheda district of Gujarat. The British government had compelled the peasants to pay land revenue. The local peasants, therefore, started a no- tax movement in Kheda district in 1918 which was led by Gandhiji.

  • Question 9
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    What was the outcome of Kheda movement?
    Solution
    Kheda is a district in the state of Gujarat. Farmers here faced a terrible famine. After this British conducted a land survey and compelled the peasants to pay land revenue. They, therefore, started a no- tax movement in Kheda district in 1918. Gandhiji organised the peasants to offer satyagraha. The peasants refused to pay land revenue and ultimately the government was forced to arrive at a settlement with the peasants.
  • Question 10
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    Arrange the following events in correct chronological order.
    (A) Rowlatt satyagraha
    (B) Khilafat movement
    (C) Jalianwala Bagh massacre
    (D) Kheda satyagraha
    Solution
    Kheda Satyagraha -Kheda Satyagraha took place in 1918, against the taxation policy of the British. While MK Gandhi was the spiritual leader, Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel emerged as the leader of the struggle.
    Rowlatt Satyagraha - In 1919, the British passed the Rowlatt Act, which restricted civil liberties like the freedom to assemble and strengthened police powers. Hindus and Muslims together revolted against this act non violently in the Satyagraha.
    The Jalianwala Bagh massacre took place on April 13, 1919, under the command of General Dyre. The civilians, majorly Sikhs, had assembled at the Jallianwala Bagh to participate in the annual Baisakhi celebrations and were fired upon by the British, in lieu of the martial law.
    Khilafat movement, which began in 1919 and went on till 1922, was an agitation by Indian Muslims allied with Indian nationalists, following the years of World War I. Its purpose was to pressurize the British Government to preserve the authority of the Ottoman Sultan as Caliph of Islam following the breakup of Ottoman Empire at the end of the war.
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