The Rise of Nationalism in India For Class 10 History MCQ Questions

Q 86. Write true (T) or false (F)

1.) Mahatma Gandhiji wanted non-violent civil disobedience against unjust laws, which started with a hartal on 8 April

2.) On 10 April, the police fired upon a peaceful procession in Lucknow

3.) The infamous Jallianwalla Bagh incident took place on 13 April.

4.)The Non-cooperation programme was adopted finally at the Congress session at Nagpur in January 1920

5.) The Non-cooperation Khilafat Movement began in January 1921

6.) The import of foreign cloth halved between 1921 and 1922, its value dropping from 102 crores to Rs. 57 crore.

7.) Khadi cloth was less expensive than mass-produced mill cloth.

8.) In Awadh, peasants were led by Baba Ramchandra-a sanyasi who had earlier been to Fiji as an indentured labourer.

9.) In most countries, the making of the new national identity was a short process.

10.) The Congress under Mahatma Gandhi tried to forge all groups together within one movement.

11.) According to the census of 1921, 14 to 15 million people perished as a result of famines and epidemics.

12.) Mahatma Gandhi returned to India in January 1915.

13.) In South Africa, Mahatma Gandhi successfully fought the racist regime with a novel method of mass agitation, which he called ahimsa.

14.) In 1917, Mahatma Gandhi travelled to Champaran in Bihar to inspire the peasants to struggle against the oppressive indigo system.

15.) In 1918, Mahatma Gandhi went to Allahabad to organise the Satyagraha movement amongst cotton mill workers.

16. (In 1920, Gandhiji decided to launch a nationwide Satyagraha against the proposed Rowlatt Act.

17.) Satyagraha is not physical force but pure soul force.

18.) In 1918, Gandhiji went to Ahmedabad to organise a Satyagraha movement among cotton mill workers.

19.) C.R. Das and Motilal Nehru formed the Swaraj Party within Congress to argue for a return to council politics.

20.) The Simon Commission arrived in India in 1927 and was greeted with the slogan ‘Go back Simon’.

25.) In December 1929, the Lahore Congress formalised the demand for ‘Purna Swaraj’ in India.

26.) It was declared that 26 January 1940, would be celebrated as Independence Day.

27.) Abdul Ghaffar Khan was a devout disciple of Mahatma Gandhi.

28.) By 1934, the Civil Disobedience Movement lost its momentum.

29.) The industrial working classes did not participate in the Civil Disobedience Movement in large numbers, except in the Surat region.

30.) An important feature of the Civil Disobedience Movement was the large-scale participation of women.

31.) Dr B.R. Ambedkar organised the Dalits into the Depressed Classes Association in 1930.

32.) Another means of creating a feeling of nationalism was through a reinterpretation of history.

33.) Peasants had to do begar and work at landlord’s farms without any payment.

34.) In June 1920, Jawaharlal Nehru began going around the villages in Surat, talking to the villagers, and trying to understand their grievances.

35.) By October, the Oudh Kisan Sabha was set up headed by Jawaharlal Nehru, Baba Ramchandra and a few others.

36.) On 6 January 1921, the police in United Provinces fired at peasants near Rae Bareli.

37.) Tribal peasants never interpreted the message of Mahatma Gandhi.

38.) In Andhra Pradesh, the villagers considered Alluri Sitaram Raju as an incarnation of God .

39.) Raju was captured by the Britishers and executed in 1925.

40.) Under the Inland Emigration Act of 1859, plantation workers were permitted to leave the tea gardens without permission.